The Canadians (and Their Beer Commercials)

[youtube width=”640″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WAsV0HZ0D4[/youtube] If there’s one thing Molson ads do well, it’s fostering national pride based on depicting a series of “Canadian” experiences that you rarely encounter anywhere but Molson ads. [New Molson ad taps into Canadians’ global reputation – Canadian Business]

Bacon Your Way to Better Health

“Monounsaturated fat—the primary fat in bacon—is widely lauded for reducing inflammation and lowering blood pressure, while the antimicrobial palmitoleic content in bacon fat can keep plaque at bay. Triglycerides too may improve because bacon fat is especially good at helping us achieve satiety and stable blood sugar. Bacon can thus … Read More

Reason to Love Fat Tuesday #467

[youtube width=”640″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-5uldtKpXc[/youtube] If you’re celebrating Fat Tuesday — and, given that this involves eating pancakes and bacon, why wouldn’t you? — you’d better nail down a good pancake recipe. Here’s Gordon Ramsay with Scotch pancakes and caramelized bananas, and since this isn’t Fox Gordon, there’s not much swearing or emotional … Read More

The Infusion Index

Make enough cocktails, and pretty soon you start infusing your own booze. When we wanted an especially hot caesar a few weeks ago, we made this chili agave liqueur, and it turned up the heat a notch or two. But why stop there? Boozed and Infused has a whole list of experimental … Read More

The Mac and Cheese Wars

Rather than taking their customer base for granted, Kraft employs pasta architects (no, seriously) to create hundreds of new designs based on major deals with media companies and their intellectual properties. Kraft’s problem is that their customers grow up and stop wanting to eat orange noodles (except for a brief period in … Read More

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