If you move to Ottawa from somewhere else, or even spend more than a few days here, you’re going to discover our famous Shawarmas. Some of the most authentic outside Beirut! I wanted to know why Shawarmas have doubled in price…Read More →
Remember the Guy who survived more than three weeks lost at sea on a bottle of ketchup, garlic powder and bouillon cubes? Heinz offered Ketchup Man a new boat to get his business back on the rails. But they couldn’t track him down!Read More →
It’s official: Your Girl Scout Cookies may arrive late or even not at all this year. Blame the same continuing food supply chain disruptions that have been causing soaring prices and shortages of many other food products over the past few months…Read More →
A new study report in the current edition of Nature Magazine suggests erythritol is linked to thrombosis. And that’s bad news for processors and consumers of a wide range of low-cal foods… What names do you know this notoriously shy product under?Read More →
You don’t know whether to laugh or cry. A bad week for Starbuck’s. And the harder the premium Coffee company tries to fix its latest image SNAFU, the worse and more visible the cracks become! Can a coffee giant become too big NOT to fail?Read More →
A couple of recent disaster survival headlines leave me musing on something most of us rarely think about: How long can a person really last, surviving without food or water? The answer to that question is more complicated than you might think…Read More →