Onions Offer More Than Flavour

No onions on my sandwich, please, my eight-year-old daughter said. I was chopping onions and other vegetables as I assembled panini sandwiches to cook on our electric sandwich grill. How about just a little onion for flavour? I asked. Remember the customer is always right, and this customer doesn t like onions! she exclaimed. My


Recipe Swap – for Jul. 7, 2011

In this place it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place.” So said the Red Queen to Alice in Lewis Carroll’sThrough The Looking Glassas Alice made her way across the patchwork fields, “a great huge game of chess that’s being played – all over the world.” It was pure

Where’s The “Taco Meat Filling?”

Where’s the beef? Not in the taco, according to a class action launched by an Alabama law firm. WSFA News in Montgomery reports that the firm has alleged that fast-food giant Taco Bell uses false advertising when referring to the filling in tacos as “beef.” “Rather than beef, these food items are actually made with


Fast-Food Restaurants Target U.S. Kids, Study Shows

Fast-food restaurants are stepping up efforts to market unhealthy food products to children and toddlers, according to a study by Yale University. It said efforts by the industry to regulate itself have failed and urged government to declare children a protected group and stop marketing efforts that are fuelling child obesity. “What we found in

Burger King Pulling Slice From Double Cheeseburger

Burger King Corp. is taking a page from the playbook of McDonald’s Corp. and pulling a slice of cheese from its $1 double cheeseburger. Starting on April 26, the fast-food chain will sell a “BK Dollar Double” with two burgers and one slice of cheese, Burger King said Feb. 18. That’s six days after the


Innovation, Trade Dominate Dairy Meeting

One surefire way to make dairy farmers squirm is suggest they consider exporting dairy products again. Sure they’re happy to sell breeding and cull cows outside the country but they don’t want to go anywhere near the international market for dairy products. Gilles Gauthier, Canada’s chief agriculture negotiator at the WTO, suggests that even with

Recipe Swap – for Mar. 5, 2009

Many of you will have gathered in church or community halls last week for a pancake supper. It marked Shrove Tuesday, of course, and the beginning of Lent. Shrove Tuesday is actually an ancient feast that dates back centuries when Christian households would clear out what little fat remained in their larder after a long


Dairy Cow Dances To A Different Tune

“It’ll identify for consumers those products that are Canadian and those that aren’t.” – IAN MACDONALD, DFC The dancing white cow with the blue maple leaf that has graced Canadian dairy products for over a decade is getting a new image. A $5 million promotional campaign by Dairy Farmers of Canada will replace the old

What’s with the bill for the beef?

Among other interesting articles in the Co-operator, “Grain fed ties grass fed in school taste test” (Jan. 22, page 19) puzzled me enough to write. Why is a patty from grass-fed beef, even without the hamburger helpers and high-priced grain, five times the cost (US60 cents versus 12 cents) of a grain-feed beef patty? How