Obesity Update: UPFs In Diet Make Young Adults Eat More
New study findings confirm what many folks feared: The more UPFs in their diet, the more young adults eat. Leading to overweight. And maybe a lifelong battle with obesity. It’s all about ‘eating without hunger’, and consuming too many calories…Read More →
Lost and Found: Simplest, Most Effective Baking Hack Ever
I can’t believe I ‘lost’ this old-school baking technique between leaving home at 18 and… yesterday. But it is now back in my ‘culinary repertoire’. And I want everybody to know it. Because I’m probably not the only one who ‘lost it’…Read More →
‘Wars’ Declared As US Promotes Its New Food Guidelines
No sooner had the new upside-down US Food Pyramid débuted than US HHS Secretary JFK Jr. ‘announced’ The War on Protein is over. But the War on Skimmed and 2% Milk has just be-gun! It seems the US always has to be fighting some kind of war…Read More →
Toronto McFan Shocked At ‘Local’ Menu Price Differences
Teachable Moment: A Toronto McDonald’s fan surveyed McMenu prices across the city and was shocked to find significant differences. I thought, ‘Here’s a good opportunity to explain why fast food joints price items differently at different locations…Read More →
‘Flavour Of The Year’ Brings Back Childhood Memories
There’s an unofficial tradition that calls for the declaration of a ‘Flavour of the Year’ at this time on the calendar. This year, it’s some-thing near and dear to my heart. Not to men-tion natural, unprocessed and native to my childhood home place…Read More →
Global ‘Comfort Foods’ You’ve Never Heard Of Before!
I recently stumbled across a post listing a whole slew of ‘comfort foods’ from all over the world. While many of the dishes were all-too-familiar, some were totally new to me. I’m itching to try the latter! And I feel compelled to share them with you…Read More →
New US Dietary Guide: Trump-Inspired And Upside-Down
That’s probably not a fair assessment of the new official US Dietary Guidelines for Amer-icans 2025-2030. But it does, for the first time, turn the familiar Food Pyramid upside-down. And wants Americans to ‘prioritize protein at every meal’…Read More →
‘Only Waffle Recipe You’ll Ever Need’? You Be The Judge
Netflix members will know how much ‘earned media’ (free publicity) Eggos Waffles got from its ‘co-starring’ role on Stranger Things. Now, another (real life) Eggo-maniac has branched out to retro-newstalgic yeast-raised waffle recipes…Read More →