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CALGARY: Atlas Persian food

I love Persian kebabs. The Iranian specialty is full of flavour and charbroiled-ness and it saves me from having to shovel the way to my own barbecue.

I’ve written about a few places in town like Royal Kabab Express and Ali Baba but they tend to be casual fast food/take out.

Atlas Specialty on the other [...]

PRODUCT REVIEW: President’s Choice Blue Menu

I got an email last month from a marketing company working on the Healthy Insider’s Report campaign and the launch of 138 new Blue Menu products for President’s Choice: would I be interested in reviewing some of their new items?

I’m already a big fan of PC — the in-house brand of Real Canadian Superstore and [...]

Foodosphere round-up

CBC-TV explores the Great Food Revolution this month. The four-part series is shot in HD and looks at our evolving food preferences in the last 30 years, how food manufacturers try to win us over, the food chain in New York City in 24 hours (that one sounds super cool), and future food trends.

It airs [...]

CALGARY: Hot out of the oven

On Saturday afternoons, the Italian Supermarket fires up its wood-burning oven and churns out homemade thin-crust pizzas til 4 p.m.

I figured it’d be fun to stop by and grab one as a snack one Saturday, not realizing there’s only one size — large. But what a deal. We got a quattro stagioni for $13.99. There [...]