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Win 2 free tickets to the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) from CookingNook.com!
TIFF is THE exciting place to be in Toronto in September and the Festival, in conjunction with California Strawberries, is giving CookingNook.com two tickets to a non-gala movie screening to give away to one of our visitors. I am so excited I wish [...]

Haagan Dazs has another great Passion Profile for Canadian foodies, this one on Mark McEwen, owner of several wonderful Toronto restaurants and star of Food TV’s show “Heat”.
Mark’s passion for food and cooking is evident in each episode of Heat. He loves to stretch himself and those around him, creating delicious food experiences for all [...]

Diabetes is a disease that is SO linked to the foods we eat that discussion of it really does belong on a food related blog or site.
We’ve recently added lots of information about diabetes to our main site, what it is, how to prevent it, and how to manage it with great recipes and [...]

A little while ago I told you about a new contest from Ben and Jerry’s  Ice Cream to name a new flavor.
The flavor has been temporarily named We are Waffling and is a combination of vanilla ice cream, fudge covered waffle cone pieces and a fudge swirl. Entries to find a new permanent name [...]

Are you, like me, becoming increasingly concerned about the fact that many of our children eat very little “real” food? There is more and more processed and ready to eat out of the package food available today, so much that some kids, and more than we want to believe I think, have little contact with [...]

[ Note: This article was written by fitness and nutrition author Jon Benson. I have his permission to share it with you. ]
Believe it or not you can get lean by eating fast food.
I know, it sounds crazy… but in a few weeks I’m going to prove it to the world with the release of [...]

[ Note: This article was written by fitness and nutrition author Jon Benson. I have his permission to share it with you. ]
It was the weirdest thing …
I mean, I’ve been around you know? I’ve had just about every body and fatloss experience you can think of… the good, the bad, the ugly…
… and [...]