Classic Dishes: Split Pea Soup
Here’s a favourite that, most Canadians contend, hails from the French culinary traditions. It’s simple and hearty and just the thing to brighten up a lunch or suppertime menu as the dreary days of Winter drawn on, and on, and on… Make lots! My experience is, folks will want seconds!Read More →
Classic Dishes: Potato Salad
If you can’t make Potato Salad, it may7 be that you truly have a black thumb for the culinary arts. But that need not be the be the last word! Try my No-Hassle Potato Salad and you may just get a new lease on cooking in general with an initial success as easy and yummy as this!Read More →
Vanilla Shortage Has Wide-Ranging Effects
I sat down at the computer this morning to check my news feeds and one headline jumped out at me: There’s a big, world-wide Vanilla shortage in progress and its effects will touch us all, even in ways that may not be immediately apparent. Prepare to shell out big bucks for the real thing.Read More →
New Dimension In Food Waste: Over-Eating
We’ve talked about the ridiculous waste of food in some parts of the world these days, in the midst of a food supply crisis in other regions. Now, university researchers have uncovered yet another causal pressure driving the food waste phenomenon. We waste mega-food just by over-eating…Read More →
Fast Food Week: An Industry Roundup
Welcome to our weekly roundup of the Fast Food sector’s yummiest, greasiest, drippiest, Cheesiest news! On our menu we have a big merger (of sorts) of two major but non-competing brands and a slew of new menu item announcements that stretches the envelope even further…Read More →
Starch-On-Starch Craze Gains Traction
I’ve mentioned it before and I guess I have to comment again: There’s a new fad (I hope, not a real trend) in the comfort food sphere. And it’s a craze I just can’t get on board with: starch-on-starch. I just can’t understand the appeal of these mash-ups and I certainly can’t recommend them nutritionally…Read More →
Trump’s Love Affair With… Meatloaf!
Couldn’t let this one go by, Especially because of all thecritical posts popping up round the Web recently commenting on U.S. President Donald Trump’s eating habits. Politicians and common folks alike are clamouring for his removal from office might best just let nature take its course…Read More →
Two Thirds Of Parents Failing Their kids?
A group at the University of Michigan asked more than 1,700 parents about their ‘records’ on supervising their kids eating habits. The result was a shocking ‘fail’ by a majority of parents, whether they believed that eating healthy was important or not. They cited many reasons why…Read More →