Consumer Reports Rated Can-ned Soups For Taste, Nutrition
Nutritionists and doctors spend a lot of time and energy vilifying canned soups as being unhealthy. Their opinion is based on tradi-tionally high levels of fat and salt. But now Consumer Reports says it’s found canned soups that are both tasty and good for you!Read More →
Researchers ‘Tag’ New Natural Sweetener From Slime Mould
Amid the headlines about beverage makers removing sugar here and adding it back there, science has moved forward. Researchers say they’ve found a new, cheap, abundant, low-Calorie, low-glucose sugar replacement – in slime mould…Read More →
I Finally Get To Try Cult-Fave ‘King’s Hawaiian’ Slider Rolls!
I’ve said before, in passing, that I wished we could get Kings’s Hawaiian bread and rolls here in Canada. I’ve dreamed of tasting them, and reviewing them. Now, my chance has come! My go-to neighbourhood supermarket has just started carrying KH products!Read More →
Tamago Sando: Japanese Egg Salad To Enjoy Warm Or Cold
We’ve been informed – by several online reviewers – of the remarkable Japanese Egg Salad Sandwich that everybody there goes to 7-Eleven for. Now, one Asian food insider dares to reveal the secrets of the REAL Egg Salad of the Land of the Rising Sun…Read More →
Chili’s Credits Its Comeback To ‘Listening To The Fans’
Chili’s was once a powerhouse Tex-Mex resto chain. But over the past few years the times – and consumer sentiment – passed Chili’s by. Sales slid. Consumer awareness evaporated. Then Chili’s brain trust had a revolutionary idea: Listen to what the fans say it should do…Read More →
New Disease-Resistent Banana Coming From Chiquita
Time for another UPDATE on the Banana Situation. The situation being that a combin-ation of Global Warming and disease is killing off traditional Cavendish banana trees by the thousands. But there’s good news! A new disease-resistant strain has been developed…Read More →
‘Cookbook” Or ‘Cook Book’? Or Something Else Altogether?
People keep asking me which version is right: Is it ‘cookbook’, ‘cook book’, or something else altogether? I’ve seen both used in what I con-sidered authoritative publications. But it took some digging to get to the real, honest, true answer to that question…Read More →
McD’s Testing Re-Usable Con-tainers For ‘For Here’ Orders
Gleaned this story from the social media ‘food newswires’… McDonald’s is testing reusable serving containers for orders to be consumed in-store. I have some questions about what they’re made of, and how they McClean them between deployments…Read More →