Cuisine Canada Scene

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 [...]

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 [...]

Canadian Food Culture Dismissed Along with Chatto

There is no more fundamental component of culture than food and drink.   As Brillat Savarin wrote, “The fate of nations depends upon how they eat.” A starving nation is known as a failed state. These are dark days here in Canada. Food sections have been radically down-sized.  People who merely eat have become self-proclaimed experts.  [...]

The “Eat Canadian” Plan?

It seems the local food movement is getting more political.  Michael Ignatieff and the Liberals have developed a platform for a Canadian food policy, and with their announcement Monday, the food community is aflutter with comments focusing on what positive changes this might bring, or whether it is just more political grandstanding. Even with the [...]

Fighting Food Fraud

The naked eye can’t tell the difference between sturgeon caviar and roe from Mississippi paddlefish. But with the help of DNA technology developed at the University of Guelph (U of G) in Ontario, the US is hoping to clamp down on food fraud. Whether it’s inferior olive oil passed off as extra-virgin,  cow’s milk cheese [...]

Feeling full, satisfying hunger

What is the Canadian law for satiety claims? Written by Ronald L. Doering The food, beverage and supplement weight management product market in the U.S. last year was $3.64 billion and growing fast. There are several approaches including providing slimming ingredients that increase energy expenditure, moderating carbohydrate metabolism and blocking dietary fat absorption. For the [...]

Update: Food Policy – Your Turn!

Update: Deadline has been extended to December 14, 2009. Food policy in Canada — it’s a bit of a daunting concept.  In Canada, we are blessed to have a bountiful food supply, very low food costs, and a vast variety to choose from.  But what is our policy about food?  We’ve got regulations about food [...]