Local/Organic

Local/Organic  

Health trends on Canadian menus
The foodservice industry is adapting to consumer demand for healthy, nutritious food. Ask a dozen people what healthy means, though, and you may get as many different answers. The wide variety of…

The season’s best: For Johnny Rocco’s Italian Grill, every menu has a season
As a successful restaurant owner in Ontario’s wine region, Tony Visca knows that one of the biggest upsides of having a food-related business in Canada is the ever-changing seasons. In fact, learning…

What “local” means: Understanding recent changes to Canadian food labelling
It is commonplace to see the terms “local” or “locally grown” being used to describe items on a restaurant menu or products on a grocery store shelf. But what exactly do those terms mean? Does “local” mean…

The garden grow-up: how to grow herbs indoors for freshness and quality
Pretty much every chef has romantic visions of grazing a garden for fresh cuttings of their favourite herbs. However, working in a kitchen with no windows in concrete buildings within the middle of the…

Closer to home: how local food programs support your community
Over the last several years, there has been a transition to quality over quantity when it comes to our food. However, with organic foods and foods without additives one obstacle has always been prevalent…

 

Keeping up with the local food movement
It used to be that when you asked a public school student where food comes from, invariably the answer was, “From the grocery store.” That’s changing as our education system is now addressing…

Permaculture – the evolution of organic
The evolution of the organic food process has led to a vast education of the population with regard to what we are putting in our bodies. It is impossible to be involved with the organic movement without…

Organic ingredients find their way into spirits, liqueurs
With health consciousness at an all-time high and the environmental movement continually gaining speed, more and more bars are getting into the game and…

Ardent Mills Organic 2016

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