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Amatriciana is a classic pasta from central Italy featuring guanciale (cured pork jowl) and crushed tomatoes.

Pasta, perfecto! Three easy midweek pasta recipes

Struggling for a mid-week meal that's equal parts simple and equal parts delicious. Resident foodie Mark DeWolf serves up three pasta recipes.

Updated Apr. 11, 2024 |5 min read

A Culinary Hero Comes Ashore at Fox Harb'r

Updated Apr. 8, 2024 |5 min read

Cook This: Three recipes from Nosh, including Passover black and white cookies

Updated Apr. 5, 2024 |13 min read

Clockwise from top left: author Micah Siva, a hearty Passover Seder, savoury pulled mushroom and tofu "brisket," and herbed horseradish salad. AUTHOR PHOTO BY HANNAH LOZANO/SEDER PHOTO BY NEETU LADDHA/ RECIPE PHOTOS BY MICAH SIVA

Is charging extra for non-dairy milk discrimination? Yes, according to these class action lawsuits

Updated Apr. 4, 2024 |4 min read

Households waste at least one billion meals a day while millions face food insecurity

Updated Mar. 31, 2024 |3 min read

Cook This: Three recipes from Cook with Confidence, including smoky lime chicken

Updated Mar. 29, 2024 |11 min read

As the days become longer, our palates awaken to the flavours of spring such as this pasta dish made with an avocado and arugula pesto.

Cook this springtime pasta delight

Mark DeWolf · Food critic |Updated Apr. 1, 2024 |2 min read

Saltwire's Mark DeWolf crafts a spring pasta dish blending the creaminess of avocado, the spicy and herbal character of arugula with shrimp.

The annual release of Nova 7 by Benjamin Bridge has become as much a symbol of welcoming spring as tulips in Nova Scotia.

Celebrating Innovation, Sustainability and Nova 7

Mark DeWolf · Food critic |Updated Mar. 28, 2024 |3 min read

It's time to toast Benjamin Bridge as they celebrate the seventeenth anniversary of Nova 7 and their recent B Corp certification.

Recipe: Rhubarb Crumble

The Vancouver Sun · Postmedia News |Updated Mar. 28, 2024 |2 min read

This sweet, seasonal recipe shared by Railtown Catering features fresh or frozen rhubarb in a slightly spiced filling. Topped with an oven-crisped oat crumble, it’s a deliciously easy dessert. Rhubarb Crumble Rhubarb filling 1 kg (35.2 oz) fresh ...

Krispy Kreme not coming to McDonald's Canada at this time

McDonald's Canada won't be selling Krispy Kreme doughnuts

Mackenzie Rhode |Updated Mar. 28, 2024 |2 min read

After McDonald’s announced it will start selling Krispy Kreme doughnuts across the United States, the fast-food chain said the arrangement won’t be coming to Canada. The McDonald’s-Krispy Kreme deal in the U.S. comes after a “successful test” at more ...

Local winemaker Gina Haverstock recently was awarded the Karl Kaiser Canadian Winemaker Award.

Local Winemaker Wins Prestigious Award

Mark DeWolf · Food critic |Updated Mar. 25, 2024 |4 min read

Nova Scotia winemaker receives a national winemaking award, marking a first for the province.

Winner of the first season of Top Chef Canada in 2011, chef Dale MacKay's Mushroom, Egg, Onion and Goat Cheese Tart is a great recipe if you'll be enjoying a Easter meal with family and friends.

HAL'S KITCHEN: Eggs for Easter

Hal Anderson |Updated Mar. 23, 2024 |4 min read

There won’t be a Hal’s Kitchen column next Sunday because I’ll be on vacation so I wanted to share with you a great recipe this week if you’ll be enjoying a holiday meal with family and friends. It comes from chef Dale MacKay, winner of the first ...

After receiving The Complete Crockpot Cookbook for Beginners by Luisa Florence, Matthew Kupfer posted, "I'm pretty sure the cookbook was written by an AI."

AI-generated cookbooks are flooding the market — and consumers have no idea before buying them

Laura Brehaut · Postmedia News |Updated Mar. 22, 2024 |4 min read

AI-generated books are inundating the market, resulting in Amazon limiting self-published Kindle e-books to three per day, according to AI Business . Unlike food images , though, it doesn’t seem that people consider cookbooks written by an AI ...

Clockwise from left: cookbook author, recipe developer and video host Molly Baz, crispy, crunchy brocc and grains with so much mint, Mollz ballz and tangled leek 'za. PHOTOS BY PEDEN + MUNK

Cook This: Three recipes from More Is More, including Molly Baz's 'favourite meatballs of all time'

Laura Brehaut · Postmedia News |Updated Mar. 22, 2024 |16 min read

Our cookbook of the week is More Is More by recipe developer and video host Molly Baz. Jump to the recipes: Crispy, Crunchy Brocc and Grains , Mollz Ballz and Tangled Leek ‘Za . Soothing piano music played in the background when Molly Baz ...

Herb and garlic roasted rack of lamb. Photo by Renee Kohlman.

Kohlman: Tap into history by serving herb-and-garlic roasted lamb at Easter

Renee Kohlman, Saskatoon StarPhoenix |Updated Mar. 21, 2024 |4 min read

With Easter feasting just around the corner, I thought I would switch things up this year and cook lamb instead of the typical ham. When I saw the hefty price tag for just one rack, it all came back to me why I don’t cook lamb more often.

A Costco Wholesale retail club is photographed in Austin, Texas, U.S. on December 12, 2016. Picture taken December 12, 2016.

What happens to Costco's $1.50 hot dog deal as top exec retires?

National Post Staff · Postmedia News |Updated Mar. 20, 2024 |3 min read

After a nearly 40 year career as the chief financial officer of Costco, Richard Galanti has stepped down. Galanti’s last day was March 15 and he will remain with the company in an advisory role through January 2025. “Richard has made innumerable and ...