My usual sources brought news this morning of a Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) warning about a Salmonella outbreak effecting 6 provinces from BC to Quebec. PHAC says the source of the outbreak remains a mystery, but every effort is being made to track it down…Read More →
I’ve just been put wise to a fact that I’d overlooked until now: many new readers of this daily column are also new to cooking. And they may have missed out on some of my very early posts under the umbrella heading ‘Cooking 101’. Here’s a guide to a whole list of basic cooking techniques…Read More →
The debate over the so-called 5-Second Rule used to keep me awake nights. I grew up believing – from my own experience – that if you dropped something on the floor, it was okay to pick it up right away and eat it, just the same. The mess you made might be a bigger worry…Read More →
A new study on food waste by the Univésité du Quebec à Montréal (UQAM) postulates that less food would be wasted if more people knew what the ‘Best Before’ date on their food purchases actually means. And supermarkets are complicit in this needless waste in their stocking policies…Read More →
In the restaurant biz, we call them ‘rags’. But you know them better as kitchen, bar or side towels. What you don’t know is that they can harbour a lot of germs and do more harm than good in your food preparation zone. Many of the famous FAT TOM factors used to gauge food safety apply…Read More →
Keurig – the company that invented the pod-based Coffee maker – recently withdrew its ads from the programs of a popular Fox News commentator. And conservative-right viewers have responded by posting videos of people ‘killing’ Keurigs – smashing machines and Coffee Pods with all sorts of ‘tools’…Read More →