Cuisine Canada Scene

After 2 years, Beef Information Centre launches new cooking instructions

One of the very first posts I wrote here was about Food Traditions. In it, I wrote about our family food tradition of Sunday Roast Beef dinner. When I first started work for the BIC, we went over to my mom’s house for that very thing, Sunday roast beef dinner. When we got there, I [...]

Fast food going natural

When I’m traveling I pay more attention to things that would normally go unnoticed. Like this Starbucks’ bag from an afternoon snack I had in New York. I’m not sure how natural a marshmallow square can be, but apparently mine  was made without artificial ingredients. With the promise of “more to come” I wonder if [...]

Field Day!

It is easy to fall into stereotypes.  It’s easy to think that Canada is so cold that we can’t grow exotic fruits and vegetables found in other countries. But as we highlighted recently, diversification into new crops, such as quinoa, is the new trend. All it takes is a few adventurous farmers to push the [...]

Peaches

This is one of the best peach seasons I can remember. These Garnet Beauties were tender and bursting with juice. They tasted so much like a peach should I have eaten half my weight in them already. Or so it feels. How passionate am I? We’ve been debating the pros and cons of buying a [...]

Discretionary Fortification – Junk is in the eye of the beholder

The CBC, CTV, and a variety of media outlets have recently highlighted a Food and Consumer Products of Canada and Canadian Medical Association Journal report on discretionary fortification, with the intent of streamlining regulation to allow the addition of vitamins and minerals to a wider variety of food products.  It sounds like this is a [...]

Canadian Beef is Local Beef

A lot of news media recently have been asking about how to identify the Country of Origin for the products we find at the grocery store, like meat.  And, with the World’s Longest Barbecue just around the corner I think it would be helpful to know how to easily identify Canadian Beef and understand why [...]

Happy Canada Day 2009

Happy Canada Day, everyone. To celebrate, I’m making a big batch of Anita Stewart’s Raspberry Maple ice cream. We’ll grill up some chicken from the local butcher and boil some new potatoes fresh from the farmers’ market.  A canola-based dressing laced with herbs from my garden will top a fresh green salad. You don’t get [...]