We recently ran down some familiar ‘Chinese Food’ ingredients that actually entered the cuisine when it came to North America, as early as the mid-late 19th century. Now, we’ll flip the coin and look at some classic Real Chinese ingredients western cooks often overlook…Read More →
If you thought the florid, wordy descriptions on the menu at the last fine dining restaurant you patronized were over-the-top, wait ’til you read the latest request for standing offer proposals from Canada’s Department of National Defense for food services at it’s Trenton, ON, air base…Read More →
While McDonald’s ponders offering All-Day Breakfast, competitors are already pushing the breakfast envelope. And the Breakfast Sandwich niche, in particular, is showing amazing growth in Canada as all the players try to figure out perfect combination of Bun, Egg, Meat and Cheese…Read More →
We’ve already given you a heads-up that McDonald’s was planning major menu and service style changes in its quest to remain in the forefront of the world’s Fast Food scene. We also told you it could take years for those changes to propagate throughout the McD’s empire. Well…Read More →
When you think ‘Canadian’ food, there are only a few menu items that come to mind as genuine Canadian inventions. One of the first, of course, is Poutine. But I recently read somewhere that Poutine is ‘evolving’ and some are asking, how far can you ‘evolve’ the dish before it becomes something else?Read More →
Okay… Cue Gordon Lightfoot’s Canadian Railroad Trilogy in the background and settle in for a tale about how the Chinese folks who came to Canada to build the Canadian Pacific Railroad in the late 19th century triggered the creation of a whole new tradition – ‘Canadian Chinese’!Read More →
Okay. It’s not really a lie. But it’s a misconception that the public seems to cherish as truth, and one which is passively, gladly enabled by the processed food industry which uses it universally on packaging and in commercials. Is it just a clever marketing mind game or cruel, profit-motivated cynicism?Read More →
As a North American who enjoys all the world’s cuisines, I believe deeply that food is a basic human element, uniting the lives and cultures of everyone in this old world of ours at a fundamental level. But as a Canadian, I like to take note when my homeland gets a leg-up on Big Brother U.S.!Read More →