When and why did you start your business? We started Paramount at the end of 2006, but incorporated in 2007. The business was actually close to bankruptcy when I bought it; I saw...
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Photo Credit: Ash Nayler Photography This past May, the Terroir Symposium took place at The Carlu in Toronto with the theme of ‘Choices’. In the opening remarks, Chef Amanda Cohen of Dirt Candy...
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Do you want the IPA again?” The bartender asked me. I was at an upscale brewpub in Ontario. “Yes please,” I said, handing her my empty glass. She took it, expertly inverted it...
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Here we look at the fastest-growing healthy claims on Canadian menus over the latest three-year period. As consumers increase consumption of healthy fare and evolve their definitions of health to become more holistic,...
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In the world of food, the Bocuse d’Or competition could be considered the Olympics. Started in 1987, the Bocuse d’Or competition’s mission is to help bring chefs out of the kitchen and into...
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It’s no surprise that public washrooms don’t typically receive a lot of praise. So when a public washroom makes you stop to take a video or capture a quick selfie, this deserves...
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Soup, by a significant margin, is the leading type of appetizer on Canadian menus, according to Kristin Menas of Technomic. Looking further, the fastest-growing soup varieties are consomme, pho and ramen, indicating an...
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We’ve just returned from Terroir 2017, and can’t stop talking about what a great symposium it was. We’ll be writing about what we learned over the next few weeks, but here are a...
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