World Record Pepper Brings Serious Heat

by Kevin Burton    We’ve got a hot story for you today. Record hot.    It’s also news I can use, but I’m not going to.    The BBC reports that the Guiness Book of World Records has certified Pepper X as the hottest chili pepper in the world. It has surpassed the Carolina Reaper …

Gotta Love Breakfast To The Moon And Back

by Kevin Burton    What’s for breakfast?    Good question. Fun question. Breakfast means morning and morning means a new day. A new start. A little surge of hope. And breakfast means fuel for the journey.    So, what’s for breakfast?   The topic takes me back to Saturday mornings in the days of Cap’n …

Café Owner To Pay Fine For Discrimination

by Lisa Steacy CTV News    The owner of a B.C. café has been ordered to pay a woman, who is legally blind, $12,000 in compensation for discrimination after she was refused service because she had a guide dog.     The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal ruled on the case last week and the decision was …

Noisy Cauliflower, A Growing Concern?

by Kevin Burton    Certain food just calls out my name. Pizza comes to mind. Know what I mean?    And it doesn’t have to shout either. I am listening for its call on Friday nights, really most nights.    I haven’t heard too much from cauliflower though. But last week I learned I should …

Chocolate And More Words From The Aztecs

by Kevin Burton    If you have an appetite for words and/or dinner and dessert, you’re in the right place.    One of the recent Words at Play columns from Merriam-Webster featured words from the Aztecs, who lived in central Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest.     The language they spoke (and about …

Hope You Relish This Juicy Hot Dog News

by Kevin Burton    Some things need a day to call attention to themselves, some things don’t.    For instance, today is national Stick Out Your Tongue Day. If for some twisted reason you wanted to draw attention to that, you need to declare a day.    The humble, but simultaneously mighty hot dog however, …

Dr. Pepper Is The Choice At My House

by Kevin Burton    Finally I am on the right side of the great consumer steamroller.    Usually the foods and other products I like exist in the financial fringes. Marginal sales, minimal customer appeal, and a tenuous position in the marketplace; that is usually where my go-to stuff is, always in danger of being …

Something New Brewing In The Coffee Pot?

by Kevin Burton    Johann Sebastian Bach wrote an ode to coffee, which means I wouldn’t have to. His would surely suffice.    By all rights though, I should.    Most of us wanted to sample coffee as young teens, exploring the world of grownups. That desire was heightened by the fact that adults tried …

Feeding Body, Mind And Spirit On The Road

by Kevin Burton    Got an unexpected comfort on the road last week that filled the stomach and the heart.    There isn’t much I don’t like about being on the road. I can see why so many people have written so many love songs to the road and the road life.    I’ve spent …

Counting Calories Is Harder Than You Thought

by Kevin Burton    Dieting is tough enough. But did you know that calorie counts on food labels can be wildly inaccurate?     It is permissible for those counts to be up to 20 percent off under Food and Drug Administration guidelines, according to insider.com.    “That means for example, that a serving of Greek …