The Food Chain
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At the Anti-Alzheimer’s Silly Sisters Cooking Club, you’ll eat well and meet interesting strangers — and just maybe help prevent the neurodegenerative disease.
OPINION: The 2019 version of Canada’s Food Guide won’t tell you how much cheese or bread to eat, writes Corey Mintz. Instead, it may actually encourage healthy eating habits.
OPINION: The practice is bad for pretty much everyone, writes Corey Mintz. Here’s why we’re still doing it — and why it needs to stop.
OPINION: People think that the night should be about crowds and parties and resolutions and regrets. Corey Mintz explains why they’re wrong.
OPINION: Buying seafood in Ontario involves making many choices— gustatory, ethical, and otherwise. Here’s how to pick a bottle of this popular condiment, writes Corey Mintz.
OPINION: There are the talkers. The drunkards. The stay-too-laters. Corey Mintz outlines useful strategies for getting them all out of your house
OPINION: They’ve tried the obscure cheeses. They’ve been to the right restaurants. And they want to share everything they know. Here’s how to make them stop, writes Corey Mintz.
OPINION: You eat it every year. You’re sick of eating it every year. So how can you convince your relatives it’s time to revolutionize your holiday meal? Corey Mintz lays out a plan of attack.
OPINION: People abstain from alcohol for all kinds of reasons, none of which are your business. Here are five ways to make the teetotaler in your life feel welcome, writes Corey Mintz.
OPINION: You make delicious jams and your salsas are a family hit — but starting a business is about more than just having a great product, writes Corey Mintz
ANALYSIS: Cannabis-infused foods are expected to become legal in 2019. But financial barriers to entering the edibles market will be high — and the regulatory unknowns could make any investment risky, writes Corey Mintz.
Ontario is the world’s largest exporter of American ginseng to China — but disease and trade disputes are putting the lucrative industry at risk.
ANALYSIS: Supermarkets throw out perfectly good produce by the tonne — just because it’s unattractive. Through Flashfoodbox, consumers can rescue it, writes Corey Mintz.
OPINION: At a Stratford restaurant, the hours are shorter and cooks serve the meals. If we want to eliminate abuse in the food industry, writes Corey Mintz, Ontarians are going to have to embrace this kind of model.
ANALYSIS: Menus are packed with hidden information — but these tips and theories can help you decode it, writes Corey Mintz.