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Language Lessons By Dana McCauley Before I was a food person, I was a word person. In fact, I have a degree in English Literature. While some people (I’m looking at you, Dad) thought it was waste of my university degree to go to college to study culinary arts, now that I’m well established in [...]

Food Trends: 2010 Cookbooks

A Look Back at 2010 Cookbook Trends By Dana McCauley As part of my trend tracking duties at Janes Family Foods, I read a lot. From blogs and trade publications to magazines and cookbooks, I always have a stack of reading by my elbow.  It’s often a big job just to curate my reading list [...]

Food Trends: Paris SIAL Food Show

Fast, Faster, Fastest Makes an Impact on French Lifestyle By Dana McCauley A trip to France is always enriching for a professional food trend tracker; but a trip to France that includes visiting the bi-annual  SIAL food show as well as two intensive retail study tours is truly a glutton’s buffet of food focused learning [...]

Food Trends: Are Spaghetti Tacos The New Milk and Pepsi?

Written by Dana McCauley Ahhh.  Autumn in Canada. I do love this time of year. Crisp air, colourful leaves, snugly sweaters and fashionable boots that look great with skirts but aren’t really necessary. If only these glory days could last until May. But alas, that is not the case. So, let’s distract ourselves from dreading [...]

Real Life Hot Lunch Thermos Test Results

There’s advice and then there’s advice for real life (we can’t ALL be Martha).  Recently, the team at Beef Information Centre set about providing advice for real life.  The task: how to pack hot lunches safely.  As a result, we conducted an in-house test of a vacuum insulated Thermos Food Jar to find out whether [...]

Chef Come Cheesemaker

We admit it. We’re nosy. When we heard that Cuisine Canada member Martin Kouprie, executive chef and co-owner of Toronto’s Pangaea Restaurant, was making cheese, we had to find out how and why a busy chef chose to venture into the world of fermented curds. We asked. He answered. When did you begin making cheese [...]

Going Postal

Going Postal- A Change of Food Careers By Dana McCauley When I had my own test kitchen and product development business I had a recurring fantasy. It usually hit when I was short staffed and swamped with deadlines, email and phone messages.  Sometimes I drifted into it when I found myself – usually at 6 [...]