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who has added value to the ingredient), stored, seasoned, portioned, formed and grilled by a restaurant cook. Add to that a freshly toasted bun that the restaurant makes (perhaps over the course of two days) and the condiments and sauces that another cook makes in-house as well. The care and attention – not to mention the freshness, I can guarantee you – will result in a burger that the majority of eaters will agree tastes better and therefore is “good” and perhaps even surpasses a burger you might make with your labour and ingredients at home for your summer barbecues. In the moment at the restaurant, the reality is that this hand-made burger is not going to take much longer to prepare after you order it, though it could be considered iRVJDLuDPNQBSFEUP TBZ DPPLJOHBNPSF complex dish on the menu that has several components. Because the burger has so many more points at which value has been added – and has better ingredients – it will cost more. Although the burger is relatively fast, it will cost more – and certainly more than a fast- food burger at your favourite QSR. Many of us look for food that is good and affordable. But good food is not – nor should it be – necessarily “cheap.” "OTXFSJOHUIBUQSFWJPVTMZQPTFERVFTUJPO PGXIFSFUPHFUiDIFBQGPPEuSFRVJSFTUIJO - king about how the three triangle elements work together and should prompt a thought or two in us about the values and “picks” that guide choice. Food writer Andrew Coppolino lives in Rockland. He is the author of “Farm to Table” and co-author of “Cooking with Shakespeare.” Follow him on Instagram @ andrewcoppolino. sur l’éducation en plein air et l’apprentissage par la nature. Le centre est ouvert à tous et s’efforce de créer un espace sécuritaire et inclusif pour les personnes autochtones, OPJSFTFUSBDJTÊFT 1"/%$ MFTNFNCSFT EFMBDPNNVOBVUÊ4-(#52 BJOTJRVFMFT personnes en situation de handicap. Plus d’informations sont disponibles au : www. wildfaunanatureplay.com. j$FTUMBEFVYJÍNFGPJTRVFKFQBSUJDJQF à ces journées portes ouvertes, et elles sont vraiment utiles », a déclaré Laverdure. « L’événement m’a permis de mettre en WBMFVSDFRVFKFQFVYPGGSJSÆMBDPNNVOBVUÊ de parler de mes programmes et de faire connaître notre mission. Beaucoup de gens se sont inscrits, et je songe maintenant à ajouter plus de semaines à mes pro- grammes, car la demande est là. » +VMJF$IBSUSBOEBJOEJRVÊRVFMMFBMMBJU EJTDVUFSBWFDTPOÊRVJQFEVEÊSPVMFNFOUEF MÊWÊOFNFOU FURVFOGPODUJPOEFTDPNNFO - UBJSFTSFÉVT FMMFEÊDJEFSBEFMBGSÊRVFODF ÆMBRVFMMFDFTKPVSOÊFTQPSUFTPVWFSUFT pourraient être organisées. « Ces événements s’inscrivent pleinement EBOTMFQMBOTUSBUÊHJRVFEFMB$JUÊ vBUFMMF ajouté. « Que veulent voir les résidents? Quels programmes les intéressent? Ce sont EFTRVFTUJPOTJNQPSUBOUFTv
When it comes to our food system, the current U.S. tariff situation facing the country has forced consumers to ask themselves questions about how they will buy groceries depending on where they are produced or grown. It’s a moment to reflect more broadly on beliefs and assumptions about what and how we eat and on the actions we take in order to do that. First off, of course, people will make decisions that best suit their family’s needs. That only makes sense. However, re-evaluating your approach to food and eating can be healthy at the same time it can be enlightening: what do I support XIFO*QVSDIBTFGPPE 8IFSFJTUIFGPPE DPNJOHGSPN 8IBURVBMJUZJUJT 8IPBSFUIF farmers, producers and workers involved? Is this a local business? Visiting a restaurant has the same impli- cations. People often ask on various social NFEJBQMBUGPSNTi8IFSFDBO*HFUBDIFBQ meal? An inexpensive burger”? That seems simple enough, but when you start thinking about it the issue is a fairly complex one, to which I will add a saying: “You can have it fast, you can have it good, you can have it cheap: pick two.” The little ditty, perhaps most commonly used in business management, is variously referred to as the “iron triangle” or the “triple-constraint triangle.” For everyone from project managers to industrial designers to software developers, the triangle (also taking the form of a nifty Venn diagram) is a signifier of the struggle between those often-opposing forces of RVBMJUZ TQFFEBOEDPTUXIJDIBSFBMXBZT aligned with the food we eat. Let’s consider just a little bit of the history PGUIFVCJRVJUPVTiGBTUGPPEu Cheap and fast food was available in /PSUI"NFSJDBBOEFTQFDJBMMZUIF6OJUFE States – pennies for a hamburger – as early as the 1920s, but its full-blown impact, interestingly, coincides with the ascent of XJEFS/PSUI"NFSJDBODBSDVMUVSF 5IF QPTU8PSME 8BS ** FSBT CPPNJOH economy saw automobiles became more affordable and more widely produced. As journalist and food activist Michael Pollan has stated, at about the same time, supper became a moveable feast as it shifted from the dining room table at home and onto the road. Pollan notes in his various books and FYQMBJOTRVJUFXFMMUIBUBTUIFOFUXPSLPG roads and highways evolved and intensified, restaurants popped up at basket-weaves and highway interchanges.
Trouver de la nourriture bonne, bon marché et rapide demande un peu plus de réflexion que de se rendre au fast-food le plus proche, surtout à une époque où notre système alimentaire est confronté à une crise existentielle sous la forme de droits de douane imposés par les États-Unis et la Chine. (Photo Stock)
ingredients, outsourcing and relative minimal labour costs are responsible. So, yes, relatively inexpensive food can CFTFSWFERVJDLMZ CVUUIFRVFTUJPOSFNBJOT is it good? 8IJMFGBTU HPPEBOEDIFBQBMMIBWF relative value– that is, you might find it inexpensive and delicious; someone else may not – the nature of its basic and minimal preparation, usually with little nutritional value added, can be an argument that it is not “good” on several levels. Assume that achieving “good” when it DPNFTUPGPPESFRVJSFTBOJOWFTUNFOUPG time: the product – a freshly ground, hand- formed hamburger that, let’s say, blends beef and pork – will necessarily have to be more expensive for the end user who purchases it. The patty is not a uniform, frozen disk that was extruded in a massive factory someone hundreds of kilometres away but is ground at the restaurant (or comes from a local butcher s’inscrire à une variété de programmes, d’activités et d’événements offerts pour les saisons automne 2025 et hiver 2026. -B$JUÊBJOEJRVÊRVFDFUUFJOJUJBUJWFWJTFÆ permettre aux citoyens de découvrir de nou- veaux programmes, de rencontrer des clubs et organismes locaux, et d’en apprendre davantage sur les services disponibles dans leur communauté. Il s’agissait de la deuxième journée portes ouvertes du genre organisée par la Cité. Une trentaine d’organismes avaient également pris part à l’événement tenu l’automne dernier. j&OHÊOÊSBM KFTVJTUSÍTTBUJTGBJUFEFMB façon dont les choses se sont déroulées », a affirmé Julie Chartrand, agente de commu- nications pour la Cité de Clarence-Rockland et organisatrice de l’événement. « Les gens ÊUBJFOUFOHBHÊT JMTQPTBJFOUEFTRVFTUJPOT /PVTBWJPOTEFTLJPTRVFTQPVSMFTFOGBOUT et c’est une excellente façon de découvrir les programmes, d’échanger avec d’autres et de tisser des liens dans la communauté. » Amanda Laverdure, fondatrice et proprié- UBJSFEF8JME'BVOB/BUVSF1MBZ TJUVÊFÆ $MBSFODF$SFFL BJOEJRVÊRVFTBQBSUJDJ - QBUJPOÆMÊWÊOFNFOUBÊUÊUSÍTCÊOÊàRVF pour son entreprise. 8JME'BVOB/BUVSF1MBZFTUVODFOUSFBYÊ
As he describes it, at those points near the highway on-ramp, you didn’t even have to get out of your car to have a meal: at a drive-in restaurant, a burger, fries and a shake appeared at your car window in mere minutes. )FSFT XIFSF DBS BOE RVJDLTFSWJDF restaurant (QSR) food align: we can thank (or not) car-maker Henry Ford and factory production-line food preparation, concepts of uniformity, centralized food management, pre-cooking and the objective that faster was better. Those same principles are at play, via economies of scale and rigid cost controls, in keeping QSR food some of the cheapest possible – a recent special at a multi-national burger joint where I live featured a burger, a pack of fries and a drink for only $10. That’s pretty cheap. Concepts of volume, standardization, inex- QFOTJWFNBTTQSPEVDFE BOEMFTTFSRVBMJUZ
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La Cité de Clarence-Rockland a tenu une journée portes ouvertes la semaine der- nière afin de présenter ses programmes de loisirs et de culture, tout en mettant en valeur les organismes à but non lucra- tif présents sur son territoire. L’événement a eu lieu le 18 mars à la salle de spectacle Optimiste, de 18 h à 21 h. Les résidents ont pu y découvrir et
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