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Pantry Raid

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Want to know how much salt and fat there is in your food? Tough luck, thanks to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency

Do you know what’s in your food? (Image: Jason Lam)

While Canadians decide who they want leading the country, the bureaucracy in Ottawa is largely spinning its wheels until the next guy comes to boss them around. With all that spare time on their hands, some bureaucrats are turning to the time-honoured tradition of leaking to the press, and in this case we’re glad they are: it looks like the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has gotten out of the business of checking out the nutritional claims made by food producers on their labels.

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Eat the Oscars: 10 Toronto dishes—one for every best picture nominee

Hosting an Oscars party is going to be tough this year. With 10 nominations for best picture, instead of the usual five, making movie-themed munchies will be twice as hard. To help Toronto hosts get their bearings, we suggest the following dishes from across the city, each inspired by the films hoping for the ultimate Academy prize.

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Culinary Curiosities

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Taco Bell founder dead at 86 (and seven other recent fast-food mogul deaths)

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Nacho tacos from Taco Bell (Photo by Steven Depolo)

Taco Bell founder Glen Bell Jr. died on Sunday night at his home in Rancho Santa Fe at the age of 86, according to a press release sent out by the company. Bell created the Tex-Mex chain in 1962 in California, selling it to PepsiCo in 1978, meaning he’s not to blame for the creation of the Taco Bell Chihuahua or the Taco Bell Drive-Thru Diet viral marketing disaster.

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Pierre Gagnaire’s new restaurant, more Canadians eating out, International Bacon Day

Happy International Bacon Day to all (Image by Mandy Jouan)

Happy International Bacon Day to all (Image by Mandy Jouan)

• Why wait until September 5 when you can start International Bacon Day shopping now? Bacon-flavoured lip gloss and bacon-scented soap make excellent stocking stuffers, and bacon cupcakes from Yummy Stuff (topped with bacon ice cream, of course) make the perfect holiday dessert. The Globe’s Sarah Boesveld highlights these and other perks of the bacon craze, just in time for the pig day. [Globe and Mail]

• Restaurant traffic in the U.S., France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain and the U.K. fell significantly in the first quarter. Canada was the only country in the NPD Group study to see a rise in the number of meals consumed. It was only a 0.1 per cent rise, and the fastest growing sector is the “evening snack.” Good show, Taco Bell; good luck, everyone else. [NDP Group]

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Gwyneth Paltrow, deboner; R.I.P., Taco Bell chihuahua; carbonated milk, no thanks

Gwyneth Paltrow has pulled a bait-and-switch on her trusting vegan fans. The animal-rights activist and former vegan recently posted a video on her Web site that shows her messily clean, debone and stuff a chicken. The video is drawing predictable outrage from all quarters of the vegetarian community. [New York Daily News]

Gidget, the Taco Bell chihuahua, has been euthanized after suffering a stroke. Besides being one of the most ubiquitously annoying pop-culture presences of the late ’90s, Gidget was a gender-bending pioneer as well—though female, she played a male on TV. Fans of quasi-Mexican food and tiny, anthropomorphic animals will miss her. [National Post]

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