Rock next Shrove Tuesday with Perfect Pancakes!
Just had another ho-hum Shrove Tuesday Pancake breakfast? Plan now to be the star of next year’s pre-Lent Pancake celebration by employing these key tips and techniques for better batter, guaranteed to turn your signature short stack into a towering success!Read More →
Ingredient Substitutions for All Occasions
If you’re a foodservice pro like me, it’s incumbent upon you to have a wide variety of spices and ingredients on hand. But the average home cook usually tries to put together a spice rack and a more modest pantry which can be adapted to all purposes. Substitutions are a daily challenge…Read More →
Soylent Green isn’t necessarily PEOPLE!
So I just about fell out of my chair when I came across this blog post about how dried algae powder is going to be ‘the food of the future’. It’s got tons of Iron and lots of other vitamins and minerals, and bags of protein. So why are we not all scarfing it down by the bucketful?Read More →
Burger menu craziness a sign of desperation
It’s not good enough anymore for a restaurant to offer great food, great prices and great service. Today, more and more diners, pubs and just plain burger joints are struggling to find some way to raise themselves above the noise in their overcrowded foodservice niche…Read More →
Kraft risks trying to improve on success
Kraft Foods, in the U.S. at least, is saying demand from consumers, as reflected in recent polls, has convinced them to remove some highly criticized additives from its famous ‘American’ (‘Process Cheese Food’, to the rest of the world) slices, spreads and Mac & Cheese dinners…Read More →
Food Fraud: Can you spot the imposters?
When we posted about fake Olive Oil a few days ago, we didn’t count on a torrent of e-mail pointing up other ‘fake’ food products that people like you and me get sucked into buying every week. Not exactly a ‘Supermarket Dirty Trick’. But… are they aware they’re selling something bogus?Read More →
Fake ‘Burger King’ unmasked in Pittsburgh!
A fake Burger King restaurant has been unmasked in Pittsburgh, PA, after customers started asking questions about some details – about both the store and the food – that just didn’t add up. My question is, “Why counterfeit a Burger King outlet in the first place?”Read More →
Olive Oil Fraud: It’s baaaaaack!
Actually… It’s never gone away. But, now, it sounds as though it’s reached epidemic proportions in North America. And, if you’re Italian, or a serious cook of any stripe, you’ll be downright upset, if not outraged, that one of your beloved kitchen staples has been slammed by fraudsters!Read More →