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Strawberry Rhubarb Pie
Country Crossroads

Pie season’s high season

RecipeSwap: Saskatoon Meringue Pie, Tart Cherry Pie, and Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie

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Everyone born on the Prairies has their favourite pie. Make that favourite pies. Do you linger over the pie table at the summer fair not sure which to choose? I do. Especially if strawberry-rhubarb is an option when there’s also saskatoon, various cream types and cherry to choose from. Oh, what to do? “Strawbarb” is
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Did you know?, News, Other livestock

Insect farms: Investors see big profits in thinking small

Flies fed garbage become an environmentally friendly source of protein

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When it comes to resolving a big global food problem, a new breed of farmers and their financial backers are thinking small. Work on the world’s largest fly farm has begun in South Africa after the European firm behind the project won much-needed funding from investors, propelling the use of insects as livestock feed beyond
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Cereals, Country Crossroads, Recipe Swap

Bring on the barley

RecipeSwap: Wild Rice, Barley and Fruit Salad, Easy Cabbage Casserole, Prairie Streusel-Topped Cake

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Anita Stewart, a well-known food writer in Canada, has high praise for a new barley cookbook. She calls it “a glimpse into the future of the food life of North America.” Go Barley: Modern Recipes for an Ancient Grain, with 100-plus recipes, was released this spring, written by home economists Pat Inglis and Linda Whitworth,
ground beef on a conveyor
Beef cattle, Livestock

Meat processors applaud tenderized beef labelling

But they say ground beef should also carry cautionary labels

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Meat processors are welcoming Health Canada’s regulations for mandatory cooking advisory labels on all mechanically tenderized beef (MTB) products but wonder why retailers aren’t required to put similar labels on ground beef packages. Jim Laws, president of the Canadian Meat Council, said in an interview the department’s MTB labelling order, which comes into effect Aug.
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Crops, News

Doubling of food needs tied to poverty reduction

Cargill’s Greg Page says a 100 per cent increase in food production is doable, but it requires work, including more scientific research

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Projections that world food production must double by 2050 hinge on a very big assumption — billions of poor people getting richer, says Greg Page, Cargill’s executive chairman and former CEO. “The only way for the… 100 per cent increase in food production is if the population grows by two billion and the proportion of
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News

Local is good, but it’s not good enough when it comes to marketing

Those selling local produce and food products need to promote benefits and features 
that go beyond where the food was grown

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Mai Rana has a vision — to have her delicious Filipino spring rolls become as integral to the Manitoba foodscape as the ubiquitous perogy. “Once people try it they’re addicted to it,” said the entrepreneur, who once sold the pork-filled rolls at farmers’ markets. Now Rana would like to scale up and enter the retail
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Crops

Food manufacturers’ contribution poorly recognized

A new report says food manufacturing in Canada needs 
more attention from government if it is to achieve its potential

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Canada’s food-manufacturing industry shouldn’t be lumped in with agriculture when it comes to this country’s food policy development, a newly released study from the Ivey Business School says. It’s the second-largest manufacturing sector, the leading employer and through the recent recession “proved to be remarkably resilient in both revenue and employment compared to other manufacturing
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Country Crossroads, Oilseeds

New eating plan is a Mediterranean Diet for the Prairies, say developers

The Pure Prairie Eating Plan, developed at the University of Alberta is built around the traditions, foods and geographies of the Prairies

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Researchers Initially, it was named ‘the Alberta Diet,’ and focused on those with Type 2 diabetes, says co-creator Catherine Chan, a professor of human nutrition at the University of Alberta. But as she and colleague Rhonda Bell worked on it, the vision became bigger, she says. A colleague suggested they call it the Mediterranean Diet
Nutrition label on a consumer product.
Crops

U.S. proposes major update to food labels in bid to combat obesity

Under the new rules, serving sizes would reflect typical amount consumers eat

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Packaged foods sold in the United States would display calorie counts more prominently and include the amount of added sugar under a proposal to significantly update nutritional labels for the first time in 20 years as health officials seek to reduce obesity and combat related diseases such as diabetes. The Food and Drug Administration said
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Crops

Food manufacturers hooked on salt, fat, sugar, says speaker

Author Michael Moss says food companies have a real challenge making processed foods palatable without excessive amounts of three ingredients

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When New York Times reporter Michael Moss started delving into why the foods we eat contain so much salt, sugar and salt, he didn’t expect his investigation to leave him empathizing with the food industry. “At one point I asked, ‘Everyone wants you to cut back on sodium because of high blood pressure. Why don’t

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