Pizza Nuttiness Reaches New Heights!
This is the first day of Fall. To top off a week dominated by nutty Food News, I’ve found a gem from the Pizza Universe… What’s the Fall’s biggest Flavour Rage? Pumpkin Spice. What’s the last thing you’d expect to find it in? Pizza. Where would you expect someone to do that first? California? No!Read More →
Stop The Hot Pepper Madness!
It used to be that we’d hear about the discovery of a new, even-hotter Hot Pepper once in a decade. Then, one every couple of years. Now, it seems a new contender for The World’s Hottest Pepper surfaces every few months. My question is: Why do we need man-made, ever-hotter Peppers?Read More →
Many Americans Dismally ‘Food Illiterate’
A new survey reveals that many Americans (and, probably, Canadians, too) are woefully uninformed about their food, where it comes from and how it is produced. If that sounds odd to you, just have a gander at some of the key results from the wide-ranging ‘food literacy’ questionnaire…Read More →
Fast Food: The ‘Big Shakeout’ Begins…
I’ve been predicting it for ages and I’ve also been suggesting changes players in the Fast Food sector will have to make to weather the storm. If the recent overhaul of Chili’s menu is anything to go by, the Big Shakeout in that painfully overcrowded industry segment is about to explode…Read More →
Loose Ends From The Food Sphere…
I have no single focus for today’s FFB post. But I do have an abiding need to pick up some loose news threads that really do deserve some sort of mention… We’ll span the spectrum from nutty new products to the latest scientific findings about you and your dirt. And we’ll look at a special day…Read More →
A Quick Red Sauce – Out Of Your Pantry!
I tried something last night. Something I was sure would fail. But I had no choice, if I wanted Pizza. Sure I could have ordered in, but I wanted MY Pizza, the way I make it. Nothing else would slake my craving. But there was one hitch: I didn’t have a drop of Marinara Sauce in the house…Read More →
Fast Food Week!
What a week! The major players are still pumping out new menu item announcements like there’s no tomorrow and, apparently, they expect us all to line up and try all of them. And we ask: Who would open a restaurant in a location where the parking is owned and controlled by someone else?Read More →
‘The Perfect Cooking Technique’?
The Fairmont San Francisco Hotel has compiled what it calls the ultimate cooking techniques infographic. We’re not sure if it was intended to educate diners about its menu item descriptions or to clarify things for its kitchen staff. But it’s a huge chart and it’s actually quite interesting… Read More →