…And FOOD Shall Make you FREE!
…Or, at least, give you a much-needed leg up in the world. That’s the premise behind a number of notable restaurant and food service projects that are changing the lives of ex-cons, recovering drug addicts and under-privileged folks. Here are just a few of the success stories…Read More →
Starbucks Is Testing Booze Service In Canada…
Remember a while back when we told you that Starbucks was looking at expanding its brand to include Wine and Beer service? That it was being tried first in the U.S.and, maybe, it would be trued here? Well, they start selling wine and beer in a few selected Toronto outlets tomorrow…Read More →
An Easter Lamb’s Tail… or Tale
Petey, this one’s for you! For everybody else, my dear friend Peter called last week looking for advice. His Easter Leg of Lamb should have come out a masterpiece, but, instead, it was ‘toast’. More precisely, in his words: Shoe Leather. However, there are lots of ways to avoid overcooking Lamb…Read More →
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 →