Here’s some food for thought for today…
- Manchester United (yes, the football team) are slated to open a Man U-themed restaurant at a mall in Mumbai, India.
- The fisheries problem is one that privatizing the seas won’t truly solve.
- Toronto’s Lai Wah Heen gets some props on Serious Eats for their awesome dim sum.
- The Chipotle Mexican Grill chain in the US had teamed up with Magnolia Pictures, creators of the documentary Food Inc. Chipotle will sponsor screenings of the film in 32 cities in the hopes that the partnership will high-light the restaurant’s dedication to local, sustainably-grown ingredients.
- Florida passes a regulation requiring products labelled “pure honey” to be actually be pure. Cutting the product with additives, chemicals or even sugar or water is now prohibited unless it is appropriately labelled.
- Dear food eaters – “natural” is not the same thing as “organic”. Organic, in Canada and the US must meet legal standards, natural can mean any damn thing. A new marketing program from Horizon “Organic” in the US has begun to intentionally blur the line between organic and natural; food activists are terrified it will confuse the public into thinking they’re getting a product that meets organic standard when it actually doesn’t.
- Finally – no political value whatsoever, not even much related to food, except that it’s an ad for Taco Bell. But it’s a cockatoo dancing to the Pina Colada song. And who doesn’t love a dancing cockatoo?
