Farrukh Yaqoob 
Ice is the most-served “food” in almost every restaurant, bar and café, yet the ice machine is often the most neglected piece of equipment in the kitchen. Because ice looks clean, it is easy to forget that the machine making …
Commercial kitchens depend on reliable equipment to maintain food quality, meet service demands, and keep daily operations running smoothly. From restaurants and hotels to catering facilities and institutional kitchens, every appliance needs properly functioning components. When a critical part wears …
Some of our most treasured family memories happen around the table. You might remember the smell of a grandmother’s bread baking on a Sunday morning, a holiday dish that only appears once a year, or a soup that always seemed …
If your freezer usually holds pizza, fries, and a bag of mystery peas, falafel deserves a spot in the lineup. Across Canada, where busy school nights, long commutes, and cold-weather comfort food habits often shape dinner choices, frozen falafel can …
Plenty of food businesses start in a home kitchen. A sourdough loaf that friends keep asking for, a family salsa recipe, cookies that sell out at the school fair. Turning that into a market stall, a food truck or a …
Anyone who tried vegan baking in its early mainstream phase remembers what it tasted like. The cake that was dense where it should have been light. The frosting that was sweet in a way that felt synthetic rather than rich. …
Comfort food is exactly what you need on a cold weeknight, but a large restaurant serving of macaroni and cheese can add more than 600 calories without you realizing it. The majority of these calories are produced from three sources: …
The Little Crystals That Turn Into Jelly Open a bag of gond katira and it looks like nothing much: brittle, pale flakes and crooked shards, somewhere between broken glass and old candle wax. Drop a spoonful into water, walk away, …
An ingredient that fights back Most powders in a cook’s pantry are there because they taste good. Haritaki is the exception. The ground, dried fruit of the Terminalia chebula tree is bitter, earthy, and strongly astringent. It dries out your …
Packing for a moving day can take much time regardless of the volume of items, just because some of them require special attention. Fragile items like glass-containing decorative pieces, electronics and appliances have their own packing challenges. At the same …