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Chef Secrets (Page 15)

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NOVELTY: What Can You Say About XXL McFries?

2025-08-06
By: Maggie
On: August 6, 2025
In: Chef Secrets, Eastern Secrets

What IS there to say? Except that off in Exotic Asia, in one of the most unspoiled countries within that realm, there lies a McSecret that few outside know. Malaysians are the world’s biggest fans of McDonald’s Fries. And they demand Fries on top of Fries!Read More →

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Scrumping: Thank Ancient Apes For Your Alcohol Tolerance

2025-08-04
By: Maggie
On: August 4, 2025
In: Chef Secrets, Comfort Food, Food Tips

I’ve heard about this phenomenon before, though not in this context. But it makes sense that ancient apes’ alcohol experiences and a single-gene selection could be what makes humans able to tolerate alcohol at all. And there’s even a new word for it…Read More →

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Put The Best of The Grill Into Your Beef ‘Investment’…

2025-08-01
By: Maggie
On: August 1, 2025
In: Chef Secrets, Comfort Food, Food Tips

High summer! And time for a check-up on your beef handling skills… Why? Because I said so. And if you started grilling as early in the spring as most avid grillers I know, you’ve had time to let your skills slip at least a bit… Your other grilled dishes will benefit, too!Read More →

Fresh Cracked Eggs at Tims - © 2021 Tim Hortons

UPDATE: Most Restos Have Discontinued Egg Surcharges

2025-07-31
By: Maggie
On: July 31, 2025
In: Chef Secrets, Comfort Food, Food News

Remember, earlier this year? The egg short-ages and price increases? The egg crisis that was plaguing consumers and foodservice sector users, alike? The good news is, the upheaval in the egg sector seems to have quietly subsided…Read More →

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White Alabama Bar-B-Q Sauce Completely New To Me

2025-07-31
By: Maggie
On: July 31, 2025
In: Chef Secrets, Comfort Food, Food Tips

There isn’t much I haven’t seen over my years in the food business. But sweet, creamy, WHITE Alabama Bar-B-Q sauce was one of them. At first, I thought they put the wrong photo at the top of the page. But this ivory-white sauce is the real deal!Read More →

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Spicy Morning Muffins: Really Such A Good Idea?

2025-07-29
By: Maggie
On: July 29, 2025
In: Chef Secrets, Comfort Food, Food Tips

I’ll come clean right off the top… I’m not a huge fan of overly spicy breakfast foods. Especially dishes that in my mind would be improved by dialling them a couple of set-tings to make them swavoury… Or even swicy…Read More →

Air Fried Bloomin' Onion - 300 - ©2022 Justin Coit

Newer-Stalgia: Tweak the Technique, Not The Food

2025-07-29
By: Maggie
On: July 29, 2025
In: Chef Secrets, Comfort Food, Food Tips

What a concept! And I’m taking credit. Here and now. What if a newstalgic twist on a nou-veau-classic involved twisting the neither the cooking technique nor the food? But the ser-vice mode? And the result was totally true to the ‘new-stalgic’ ethic?Read More →

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Extremes Know No Bounds: Popsicle Pregnancy Reveal

2025-07-15
By: Maggie
On: July 15, 2025
In: Chef Secrets, Comfort Food, Food Tips

After discussing it with Sister Erin… We’ve de-cided there are folks out there who are crazy enough to actually do what the latest viral online pregnancy reveal story claims. And they’ve definitely crossed at least a few social ‘red lines’…Read More →

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