Cuisine Canada Scene

Expect Grimm news for Food Product Development

When tracking food trends, you need to keep an eye on culture as a whole since influences from current events and entertainment often creep into the world of food in obvious and also unexpected ways. Consider books like the Soprano’s Family Cookbook or the myriad products that emerged during the hey days of the space [...]

World Oceans Day: Sustainable Convenience

A Sustainable Fish on Every Table By Dana McCauley Since last spring when I started to work for a food manufacturer, I’ve received quite a bit of criticism from people who accuse me of selling out and abandoning the true and noble culinary path. Although I won’t say it doesn’t bother me, I can say [...]

Weber Canadian Grill Watch Survey Results

Grilling Canadians Written by Barbara Barnes May is National Barbecue Month, a month I have celebrated for decades. Being a media type, I anxiously await the results of the annual Weber Canadian Grill Watch Survey and sharing the stats. The results of the 22nd annual Canadian survey are hot off the grill. This year, of [...]

When Local and Homemade Go too Far

The Trend Toward Human Breast Milk for Adult Food By Dana McCauley I’m sorry. I have to do it. As much as I’m squicked out by this topic myself and as much as I know it may squick many of you out, today we are going to talk about the strange and perplexing emerging trend [...]

What Can We Learn from Fat Vegans?

The Lesson We Can Learn from Fat Vegans By Dana McCauley I’ve recently added a part time job to my roster of responsibilities; during the month of February, my role as a judge on the new Global and Food Network TV show Recipe To Riches took me, my co-judges Laura Calder and  Tony Chapman, and [...]

Starting a Movement in Food Product Development

Public Confession: I’m Equal Parts Lone Nut & Follower By Dana McCauley As the head of new product innovation at Janes Family Foods, I spend a lot of time thinking about how creativity works and examining the creative process. My goal is two-fold: one, if I understand how I get from white board to packaged [...]

Sodium – Is it worth its weight?

Sodium.  It all depends on who you ask whether it is ranked among the most notorious of chemicals in our food, or one of the most essential.  Sodium has been implicated, study after study, in being one of the major causes of heart disease in Canada.  Reducing our sodium intake, on a whole, is a [...]