by Talia Kleinplatz | In case you missed it last week, enRoute Magazine named its Top 10 Best New Restaurants in Canada and Vancouver’s Kissa Tanto topped the list with the Fraserhood’s Savio Volpe coming in at #10.

Once again, global climate change is playing rough with the food and beverage industry: Extreme weather patterns this past year have wreaked havoc on wine production with some countries’ yields dropping by as much as 50%.

The New York Times takes a look at the history of rainbow sprinkles and how funfetti has made a comeback over the past 10 years.

Eater makes the case for ordering every dessert on the menu (as if anyone ever needed to make such a case).

This week in food podcasts, Radiolab shares the mysterious story of a life-long lover of steak who developed a strange allergy to meat in adulthood.

In the ongoing battle between milk and dark chocolate, The Atlantic’s Megan Garber declares no contest.

From one restaurant owner – a complex and nuanced look at HB2 in North Carolina and how state boycotts – while completely warranted – have at times served to harm the very people they seek to support in solidarity.

For those of you chugging Ocean Spray in hopes of relieving unfortunate symptoms, researchers have now debunked the cranberry cure for UTI’s.

While packed word-of-mouth hole-in-the-walls are often some of the best hidden gems, the Globe & Mail’s Alex Gill finds $88 to be too high a price for her recent lacklustre Beijing-style Peking Duck experience at Kitsilano’s Hu Tong.

In a follow-up to last week’s news on the local Welfare Challenge, The Georgia Straight checks back in with participants to see what it was like for them to live on $18 a day.

Good news: Commercial Drive’s Jamjar is set to move into the Rangoli space in South Granville this winter while the famed Indian bistro will move next door into the old Vij’s location. Total win-win.

A notoriously fickle and high maintenance bread starter sometimes needs a proper name in order to endear us to their madness. Here are a few hilarious names famous bakers have lovingly given to their sourdough starters. Levain Halen…classic!

Jefferson Alvarez, previously of Secret Location, has found a new home base at Kitsilano’s Cacao Progressive Latin. The Vancouver Sun’s Mia Stainsby stopped by to find out how the acclaimed chef is settling into his new digs.

The folks at SAVEUR share some brilliant food-based costume ideas, although I gotta say dressing up as a pinata sounds like a risky endeavour…

You can’t get a meal on the go, but you can still get an “I voted” sticker. Check out how one US county is using food trucks to get out the vote.

In honour of Halloween, here’s a solid case for Nerds as the greatest candy of all time.

Eating via Instagram honours this week go to Foodess because “C” is for cookie, and cookies are for me.

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