White Pepper: Mystery And Magic…
Do you know the difference between good old, every-day Black Pepper and its more-exotic cousin, White Pepper? Have you ever used White Pepper in your cooking? If not, you’ve been missing out on one of life’s simple culinary pleasures! Behold the mystery and magic of White Pepper…Read More →
As The Rotisserie Chicken Turns… Mega-Merger!
The corporation that owns and operates Swiss Chalet Rotisserie Chicken restaurants has bought the Quebec-based St. Hubert Rotisserie Chicken restaurant chain for just over half a billion dollars. But the Ontario-based takeover has a lot of Quebec nationalists up in arms…Read More →
BPA Is Back In The News
BPA – formally, Bisphenol A – has been condemned by healthy eating activists and some medical authorities as a carcinogen. However, the jury is still out on just how much it takes to trigger a tumor. A new study reveals that we get what sounds like a lot of exposure to BPA from food cans…Read More →
Breakfast Spreads Schizophrenia: Grams or Mls?
I can’t stand it any longer. I just have to know. And, as result, so do you: Why do they sell Jams and Jellies by volume (fluid oz./ml) and other spreads – Honey, Peanut Butter, Nutella, you name it – by weight (oz./gram)? Herewith follows a digest of my recent in-depth research into this vexing issue…Read More →
To Bee or Not To Bee? There’s No Question!
You gotta have Bees. Hives and hives and hives of Bees. Otherwise, at least a third of all your food crops don’t get pollinated and there’s a massive crop failure. And that’s a good way to trigger severe food shortages which, in turn, will trigger dramatic food price increases. Read More →
Breakfast: More Important Than We Thought!
I know this seems counter-intuitive, but, when a whole hockey shift of Yale doctors says so, it bears further consideration. A new report on a study of people who skip breakfast suggests that it’s worse to skip the first meal of the day than it is to have a second breakfast at Coffee time!Read More →
A&W Joins the ‘French’s Ketchup Nation’!
Fast food player A&W Canada has announced it will offer French’s Ketchup and Mustard exclusively, at its Canadian burger outlets. Another victory for All-Canadian Ketchup! The announcement this morning came just a week after the big kerfuffle over Loblaw’s ‘de-listing’ of French’s Ketchup.Read More →
Please Don’t Eat Those Avocado Pits!
This is just to be sure you’ve seen the news… A Facebook post about eating Avocado Pits got more than 25 million views this past week but, if you’re one of the folks who took the post at its word, listen up! The California Avocado Growers Association warns against taking them internally…Read More →