It was bound to happen, especially after Tim’s was bought by an international conglomerate that also owns Burger King, Heinz and a number of other famous ‘household name’ brands. it’s a showdown (albeit in miniature) pitting Tim Horton’s Coffee and Donuts against Dunkin’ Donuts Joe and Doh…Read More →
One of the questions people ask me regularly is, “How can I revive those leftover fries the day after?” No matter where they come from or how they were made, almost every Fry you’ll come across in a lifetime of Fast-Fooding will go limp and soggy within hours of purchase. But you can fix that!Read More →
Here’s something you don’t see every day: An aboriginal-themed food truck, cruising the streets of Toronto during the Pan Am Games, with the goal of introducing visitors from across the hemisphere to some real, honest-to-goodness Canadian First Nations foods.But what kind of food is that, exactly?Read More →
We’re all aware of the flood of studies and claims (some scientific and sound, some apocryphal) about ‘Junk Food’ that have burst upon the Internet in the past decade. It’s ruining our bodies and making us fat. Now, there’s new scientific evidence that Junk Food is actually making us stupider, too…Read More →
Summer is the time most of us roll out the grill or smoker and get busy with some great cuts of meat! Grill Masters need to know what the Heck Marinade is and how it works? Once you get Marinades down, you’ll be able to work grillside magic on any food you choose to fire up!Read More →
Starbucks has announced it’s pulling back from a recent expedition into the bakery business, closing about a hundred bakery shop locations it acquired in a takeover designed to jazz up the quality of it’s bread and pastry treats. Too much trouble to actually bake on the premises. Really?Read More →
I expect you’ve read about it in the papers or seen it on TV. Beef prices are expected to soar as much as another 40 per cent this year and there’s nothing much we can do about it. The obvious thing would be to boycott Beef until the prices come down. But that may do more harm than good…Read More →
The local Rhubarb is on store shelves (and in every second back yard garden) in the part of the world where I live! That’s great news. We have about a month to savour this unique plant’s sweet-and-sour delights until the weather gets too warm and the stalks shoot up to blossom and go to seed…Read More →