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Two drums of Prairie buckwheat honey go by sea to the UK. Fresh Okanagan cherries fly to South Korea. We follow both orders step by step: the paperwork, certifications, border rules and how long each journey really takes.
Two drums of Prairie buckwheat honey go by sea to the UK. Fresh Okanagan cherries fly to South Korea. We follow both orders step by step: the paperwork, certifications, border rules and how long each journey really takes.
Plant-based burgers went from Wall Street's hottest IPO to a sales slump in six years, yet the world's appetite for protein keeps growing. Here's why the fake-meat hype faded, where plant protein is heading next, and why Canada, the world's largest pea producer, is well placed.
Bertie Wooster fed Jeeves fish for brain power, Danish doctors built an industry on the Greenland Inuit diet, and a Canadian scientist later said the evidence was thin. Inside the omega-3 business, from cod liver oil to Nova Scotia refineries and Prairie flax.
Jamestown settlers were ordered to plant it, Virginia let farmers pay debts with it, and in 1942 the US government made a film begging farmers to grow it. Today Canada grows hemp mostly for food, and the US is rewriting its rules again.
In 1904 a Nobel-bound scientist told Paris that sour milk could slow ageing. Pharmacies sold yogurt as medicine, a Barcelona chemist named a company after his son, and a century later Activia paid US$21 million over its claims. The long, tangy history of gut health.
A Pope's gold medal for a coca wine, an Atlanta pharmacist dodging prohibition, a Thai drink for truck drivers that became 13.9 billion cans a year, and a Canadian recall of Prime. The buzzing history of energy drinks, and why "natural energy" is next.
In 1716 a Jesuit and a Mohawk healer found ginseng near Montreal. Seventy years later, 30 tons of it paid for America's first voyage to China. Today Ontario grows it on an industrial scale, and tariffs are rewriting the trade.
Thieves swapped C$18 million of syrup for water, Thomas Jefferson planted maples to fight slavery, and Quebec's strategic syrup reserve has just run dry. The sticky story of Canada's liquid gold.
An 8,000-year-old cave painting, an emperor at war with cane sugar, a Canadian bear who became Winnie-the-Pooh, and the EU test that flagged almost half of imported honey. Why real honey is worth fighting for.
A Toronto pharmacist perfected a "pale dry" ginger ale, US Prohibition turned it into the bootlegger's favourite mixer, and a 2019 lawsuit asked how much real ginger was inside. Now Canadians are drinking less, and the no-alcohol aisle is booming.
A British lord coined "organic farming" in 1940, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring turned pesticides into a public scandal, and Joni Mitchell sang about it. Today Canada's organic market is worth C$11.88 billion, and one 2009 agreement lets it sell organic across the US border.
A royal dowry, a midnight raid in Boston, two Opium Wars and a botanist in disguise: how one leaf rewired three continents, and why climate change is now redrawing the tea map.
