Frozen pipes hurt local business
I had a fabulous bowl of hot and sour soup at a local Chinese food restaurant the other day and found out the price the owner is paying after his pipes froze this winter.
Smaller packages of meat hide price increases
Have you noticed what’s happened to the price of bacon? The 500 gram package, the standard unit for years, has suddenly shrunk to 375 grams. The only part that hasn’t shrunk is the price.
Winnipeg’s best sandwich a classroom creation
Strathcona School’s Wrap of Awesomeness takes top prize in the Recipe for Success Video Cooking Contest.
More broccoli? Yes, please!
The Agape Table for Kids program exposes youngsters to healthy food and offers parents affordable options.
Temporary Foreign Worker Program investigated
There are 300,000 foreign workers holding jobs in Canada. Now, some restaurant owners are accused of replacing long time employees with temporary imports.
They ate, drank and were very charitable
Eat, drink and be charitable is the official theme for Share Our Strength’s Taste of the Nation, and there was a bounty of all three at the sold-out event.
Sobeys delivers pink slips to long time Lucerne employees
Sobeys recent purchase of Safeway will see the closing of the Lucerne cheese and ice cream plant in Winnipeg. The 41 workers to be laid off were told the company wants to ‘improve efficiencies’.
Cast your vote and help decide Winnipeg’s best sandwich
Winnipeg kids created their most outrageous, nutritious and delicious sandwiches and shared them on video. Now it’s your turn to vote and help determine the People’s Choice.
When in doubt … blame the weather
“Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” As we labour on through the winter from hell, that quote could also apply to the movement of grain on the prairies.
Investigative food journalist serves up tasty morsels of info
Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times investigative reporter, Michael Moss, was in town this week to talk about what food companies do to their products in order to hook us, one nacho chip at a time.