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Category: What’s Cooking?
It’s a burger! It’s a pizza! It’s Megaburgerpizza!
If you cant’ decide whether you want a burger or a pizza, … you could have both. Kyoto (Japan) pizza parlor “Pizza Little Party” is offering a Megaburgerpizza. The 1.2 kg (2.65 lbs) creation is made with thick beef patties sandwiched between two 27 cm (11”) pizza pies. In addition to the pizza sauce and […]
French Fries 24/7
Belgians have long claimed that their “frites” are the world’s best; now they can enjoy their favourite food 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, thanks to new vending machines that fry-up a 135g serving of chips in 90 second for 2.50 euro (about $3.50) per serving.
McGill’s Big Tomato Harvest 2013
If you like tomatoes and live in Montreal’s West Island, you may want to check out a special McGill Feeding McGill event, next Tuesday August 27, 15:30 to 17:00. McGill will donate about 2,000 pounds of fresh food from the event to Moisson Montreal, Meals on Wheels and the Old Brewery Mission.
Nugtella, aka Weed Nutella, now available in California
Nutella goes well with almost everything, just ask any Nutella-lover. It’s not surprising then that Organicares, who specialises in “medical edibles” and is based in San Jose, CA, has come out with a Nutella-like product, called Nugtella, that combines hash oil with hazelnut chocolate spread.
Cooling off with watermelon …
Record heat in China this summer sparked a watermelon craze. As soon as the first parents posted a few pictures of their toddler dressed in watermelon overalls, a few weeks ago, copycat pictures started popping up all over Weibo, China’s version of Twitter. And kids aren’t the only ones wearing watermelon outfits …..
“Garden Rue” to ward off squirrels
Simply go for a stroll in any of the parks in Montreal and you’ll see what a big hit squirrels are with the tourists, who are constantly clicking photos of them. Sure, these creatures are cute and charming, but they can also be extremely irritating when they attack our flower and vegetable gardens.
Would you eat a “Frankenburger”?
The world’s first beef burger created from stem cells was unveiled in London on Monday. The 5-ounce (142 g) burger, which costs more than 250,000 euros ($343,000) to produce, was developed by Mark Post of Maastricht University with funding from Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
The best pesto in the world!
In each of our lives, there is always some food that is extra special to us for purely sentimental reasons. For me, born as I was in Liguria, a coastal region of north-western Italy that borders the Mediterranean Sea, it is pesto (which explains the very name of this “Pestoblog”) AUTHENTIC pesto is a creamy sauce […]
A complimentary Italian family…
Apparently, every new FIAT 500L comes with a complimentary Italian family in the backseat. Needs no introduction: sheer genius. Enjoy:
Taste Little Italy’s terrasses!
Did you know that there is an aromatic herbs path that goes through 16 terrasses of Little Italy? In order to highlight the important role played by the aromatic herbs in this neighbourhood’s culture, each restaurant and café in Little Italy will have pots containing a particular aromatic herb. Each restaurant and café will offer […]
Royal Baby … on pizza
After Queen Elizabeth, George Clooney, Robbie Williams, Sofia Loren and hundreds of celebrities, it’s now the turn of the Royal Baby to be portrayed with his parents on one of Domenico Crolla’s “pizza art piece”.
An army of bees makes whisky sweeter
To promote the launch of its “Highlander Honey”, Scotch whisky maker Dewar’s got together with a sculptor/engineer and a beekeeper, and placed 80,000 bees inside a bottle-shaped vessel that mimicked their normal hive setup. After six weeks, the bees had formed a natural honeycomb sculpture inside, in a back-to-nature “3-B” process 😉 and the distiller […]
