Category: What’s Cooking?

Street food vendors in Montreal

July 6, 2012 No Comments

In keeping with an exploding North American trend, the appetite for truck grub is increasing in Montreal, where the city is now considering allowing food trucks and street food vendors to sell their delicacies downtown. Since the beginning of summer, a few vendors have been allowed in selected areas, apparently with great success. At the […]

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Aperol Spritz: a world record in Venice

July 3, 2012 No Comments

Earlier this year, I have already mentioned that “spritz” is the preferred alcoholic aperitif in Northern Italy. Last week, over 2600 people gathered in Piazza San Marco in Venice to attempt the Guinness World Record for the ‘Largest Aperol Spritz Celebration‘.

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The World Population is 15 Millons tonnes overweight

June 29, 2012 No Comments

A new report published a week ago on the BMC Public Health, using data from the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2005 the global adult population collectively weighted 287 million tonnes, of which 15 million tonnes were due to overweight (BMI > 25) et 3.5 million tonnes to obesity.

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Italy honoured with world’s largest lasagne at Euro 2012

June 26, 2012 No Comments

The Guinness World Record of the biggest lasagne has been broken last week in Poland. An Italian restaurant in Krakow has created a gigantic meat feast to celebrate the Italian soccer team, headquartered nearby during the Euro Soccer Championship.

Fruitful visits!

June 22, 2012 No Comments

We wait all year long for the local strawberries and finally … here they are, filling up our markets and supermarkets with their cheerful presence.

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How to Get Ketchup Out of the Bottle?

June 18, 2012 No Comments

Do you have a secret trick to get those last globs of ketchup out of the bottle? Whether you violently shake the bottle or have a more elegant method, this may soon be a thing of the past. Why? Thanks to LiquiGuide, a new “super slippery” coating, developed by a group of MIT engineers. It […]

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Rice Field Murals in Japan

June 14, 2012 No Comments

My Japanese friend Shizuko Ohno sent me a few pictures that I’d like to share with you: they show huge agricultural works of art in the rice paddy fields of Inakadate,  a village located in the Aomori prefecture, northern Japan.

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World’s Most Expensive Hot Dog

June 11, 2012 No Comments

The competition is strong for the official title in the Guinness Book of World’s Records. Vancouver’s DougieDog with its $100 Cognac-infused Kobe-beef hot dog has lost the crown to Sacramento’s Capitol Dog. The main ingredients of this 18 in. delicacy include: moose cheese from Sweden, focaccia bread, and a 3/4 pound all-beef frank. Some of […]

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Soda Ban in the Big Apple. Tell us what you think.

June 8, 2012 1 Comment

In a unprecedented move against obesity, New York City’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed last week a ban on soft drinks that are larger than 16 ounces, from movie theaters, restaurants and street cars. This will not affect beverages sold in grocery or convenience stores. New York City’s statistics show that 58% of the adult population […]

What does the number on a fruit sticker mean?

June 4, 2012 1 Comment

Those stickers on fruit and vegetables show the produce PLU – Price Look Up Code, used in grocery stores and supermarkets to make check-out and inventory control easier and more accurate. In most cases, the code is a four-digit number, beginning with a “3” or a “4“, which identifies the type of bulk produce, including […]

The tomato genome has been cracked

June 1, 2012 No Comments

A consortium of 300 plant geneticists from 14 countries has spent the last nine years decoding the tomato genome in the hope of breeding better ones. Their results were finally published online Wednesday in the journal Nature. The most amazing thing is that the tomato turns out to possess about 32,000 genes, some 7,000 more […]

Gardening Is Good for Your Health

May 30, 2012 No Comments

We certainly feel like we’ve put in a good day’s work after gardening for hours on end. But is gardening really good exercise? For the most part, yes. According to some scientific studies, gardening compares favourably with other moderate-to-strenuous forms of exercise, like walking and bicycling. But of course, like any other form of exercise, […]

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