Isn’t she lovely

This blog was only a few entries old when my boss Jill and I attended a fantastic workshop on e-marketing, led by Mitch Joel of Twist Image. In that workshop, I asked whether or not it was advisable to have the blog writer identify her/himself. The answer was “yes,” hence the transition from [...]

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American chefs pick top menu trends for 2009

More goodness from the NRA (National Restaurant Association): the top 10 food trends for restaurants in 2009.
In October, NRA surveyed mote than 1,600 professional chefs, who ranked over 200 foods/menu items as “hot trends,” yesterday’s news” or “perennial favorites” (or, as we like to say in Canada, “favourites”).
Four trends cracked the 80% mark:

Locally grown produce [...]

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Meat is the essence of hamburger, and hamburger is the essence of delicious

From the Boston Herald, via the National Restaurant Association’s SmartBrief, which titled its story, “Dab yourself with the essence of hamburger”:
 
Burger King is hoping to be known as more than “The Home of the Whopper.”
This weekend, the fast food chain rolled out “Flame,” a new men’s body spray billed as “the scent of seduction with [...]

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Of all the synonyms, I choose “crunch”

There are plenty of words that can be used to describe our current economic climate. Many unrepeatable in a family/corporate blog.
Today, I’m going with “crunch,” because it sounds immediate but not fatal, and vaguely seasonal (think “the moon on the crest of the new fallen snow”). But for the record, “crunch” is my [...]

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Food fraudster foiled by Facebook

This news is actually about a week old, but I’m thinking of it as that delicious leftover I just rediscovered on the third shelf of the fridge: Restaurateur tracks down bill dodgers on Facebook.
 
Peter Leary from seafood restaurant Seagrass on Melbourne’s Southbank was fuming when the diners ate their way through the menu, pairing [...]

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You eat with your eyes (but your mouth helps)

Sorry for the short notice, but I’ve just learned that Adele Hagan of foodstylist.ca will be taking questions re: holiday entertaining today at 1:00 p.m. ET via the Globe and Mail website.
They’re probably expecting questions from the public-at-large, but with Adele’s culinary training — attended London’s Le Cordon Bleu and graduated at the top of [...]

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