No relation to “Subservient Chicken”

Several years ago, a friend of mine introduced me to the term “desperation chicken.”
That’s the pre-cooked/roasted whole chicken that you pick up at from the deli counter at the grocery store, because it’s already 7:30 p.m. and there is no way in Hollandaise sauce you are going to go home and make a whole dinner [...]

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The best part of waking up … and dining out

According to CREST/NPD Group, regular coffee was the most popular beverage ordered at Canadian restaurants in 2007, outselling milk by nearly a 7-to-1 margin.
While the top-selling beverages show little change from one year to the next, juice, hot tea, iced tea and hot chocolate all showed slight gains over 2006.
For the full list of top [...]

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Mile high club sandwich

There are plenty of things to like about The Appetizer, National Post’s food blog. It serves up recipes, chef interviews (under the twee title “Under the toque”) and my favourite column (blolum?), weekly kitchen gadget reviews written by Gremolata.com’s editor, Malcolm Jolley.
I respect Alton Brown’s maxim that nothing in the kitchen (other than a fire [...]

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Pain in the toaster

More nummy — as in, delicious and numerical — stats from the newly released Foodservice Facts 2008:

Toast/sliced bread is included in 18% of restaurant breakfasts and morning snacks in Quebec — the highest share in Canada
While 6% of supper meal occasions at full-service restaurants in Canada include wine, the figure rises to 9% in Quebec
Quebec [...]

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Menu prices hold steady … for now

If you’ve spent 30 minutes around an office water cooler, you’ll know that rising gas prices are a hot topic of discussion. And even if you’re just a casual consumer of mainstream news, you’ll know that the prices for many food commodities are headed in the same upward trend.
In a recent interview with Canadian [...]

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