For you budding foodtographers out there who are looking for some great inspiration and some new techniques Scotiabank is  hosting their annual “CONTACT” Photography Festival this month. CONTACT is an annual photography festival with over 1000 local, national, and international artists that takes place at over 200 locations across the entire city.  Celebrate the art [...]

LONDON, ONT.—A Wallaceburg, a local man dies after a horrible mishap while ordering at the Tim Hortons drive-thru.  73-year-old George Weston had his head crushed against a yellow post while leaning out his door as he was reversing backwards in the drive-thru lane to pick up something on the ground.  Emergency paramedics arrived on site [...]

When you start to give up hope on your health and well being why not stop in to a Bob Evans restaurant and try the sausage & gravy biscuit dispensing machine. This is truly a sign that the fast food restaurants have stopped respecting their patrons by creating this fat inducing dispenser which should be dubbed [...]

SunChips has come up with something that will revolutionize the chip industry and fulfills their social environmental responsibility by inventing the first 100% compostable chip bag. Besides the actual taste of the chips, packaging is the most important characteristic to a consumer when purchasing a bag of chips and now SunChips has found a way [...]

Unbelievable!  This new KFC sandwich is substituting the bread for fried chicken and it’s not a joke!  The heart attack sandwich was a rumor back in August when we did a write up about the “impossible double down sandwich” but now it’s a reality and will be available in stores come April 12.2010 at  a [...]

The global event celebrated all over the world is organized by the World Wildlife  (WWF) and is held on the last Saturday of March every year.  This event calls for households and businesses to turn off their non essential lights for an hour to raise awareness of the effects of climate change. Toronto will do [...]

Coming together again for a good cause are some of Toronto’s finest chefs cooking up some of the tastiest dishes with portions of the proceeds going to The Stop Community Food Centre. Throughout the month of March (1 – 31) participating Cross Town Kitchens restaurants will be preparing their own popular dishes made from home [...]

About three feet tall and made from 150 pounds of rich smooth creamy chocolate stands the Hershey’s Stanley Cup.  This massive block of chocolate is the sweetest life size replica Lord Stanely’s mug ever made.  Maybe they can wrap the chocolate in tin foil and make it the largest Hershey’s Kiss replica right after. This [...]

Introducing a new YummyLocal reoccurring article called “Eye Candy” that appeals to the more artistic side of a meal and emphasizes on appearance before taste. “Eye Candy” is a YummyLocal collection of food photographs that will be published on a regular basis that will celebrate the artistry in the culinary arts. This is an opportunity [...]

Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) issued a warning to the public on two brands of pretzels from President’s Choice and H.K. Anderson that contain hydrolysed vegetable proteins (HVP) that may contain  salmonella.