Soaring cauliflower prices come to a head for restaurateurs

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Soaring cauliflower prices come to a head for restaurateurs
Topic Started: Jan 19 2016, 12:19 AM (375 Views)
goldengal	Jan 19 2016, 12:19 AM Post #1
Mistress, House of Dogs Posts: 11,674 Group: Member Member #715 Joined: March 31, 2010	Quote: The soaring price of cauliflower is forcing restaurants offering signature dishes featuring the popular cabbage relative to rethink their menus and hike prices. Over the past few years, the vegetable once considered boring has been springing up on menus in innovative ways. Some roast it whole, while others serve it as a taco. Others please their vegan diners by using it to create a cheese sauce substitute. However, the sliding loonie and a drought in California have helped drive cauliflower prices toward double digits a head, causing a cauliflower crisis. At least one restaurant chain famous for its take on cauliflower is passing on some of the extra costs to its customers. http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/01/17/soaring-cauliflower-prices-come-to-a-head-for-restaurateurs.html Take care, Pat

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Shorty	Jan 22 2016, 03:38 PM Post #16
Red Star Member Posts: 2,301 Group: Member Member #1,150 Joined: February 12, 2015	The price of some veggies was sort of understandable with the loonie and winter and extra bad weather variables. Root vegetables that grow in Canada have been questionably high. I was paying $2/lb for squash, on sale. Turnip, $.69 on a super sale. I love my fall veggies. The cabbage was so tough, I finally gave up and tossed the last third. Cauliflower has been ugly and ludicrous. Meat isn't so much of a problem, because we don't eat much.



campy	Jan 22 2016, 04:00 PM Post #17
Handyman Extraordinaire Posts: 28,720 Group: no politics Member #204 Joined: February 2, 2006	Acorn squash. My favorite. Steamed. Butter and brown sugar.



Durgan	Jan 22 2016, 04:27 PM Post #18
Veteran Member Posts: 13,273 Group: Gardening Guru Member #720 Joined: March 31, 2010	I still got around 350 pressure canned juice, and enjoy all. Every vegetable and fruit that is available. I recently did 8 liters of naval oranges from California purchased at Costco at $12.00 for 10 pounds about 20 oranges. You folks probably know the story of the grasshopper and the ant.



campy	Jan 22 2016, 04:33 PM Post #19
Handyman Extraordinaire Posts: 28,720 Group: no politics Member #204 Joined: February 2, 2006	Durgan Jan 22 2016, 04:27 PM I still got around 350 pressure canned juice, and enjoy all. Every vegetable and fruit that is available. I recently did 8 liters of naval oranges from California purchased at Costco at $12.00 for 10 pounds about 20 oranges. You folks probably know the story of the grasshopper and the ant. You have a different appetite than most Durgan. But it works for you. So keep up the good work.



haili	Jan 23 2016, 01:31 AM Post #20
Gold Star Member Posts: 7,084 Group: Member Member #387 Joined: September 15, 2006	I still have frozen cauliflower from last fall when it was cheap but it's on sale this week for $1.99 at Food Basics, $2.99 at Superstore. All veg. are expensive when they're out of season but a lot of people don't understand that.



blizzard	Jan 23 2016, 01:34 AM Post #21
Gold Star Member Posts: 4,152 Group: Member Member #1,012 Joined: July 8, 2013	This year, if I am still where I can have a garden, I will try growing cauliflower again. I think we planted it too early or it was just too dry. We did manage to have some small heads of purple cauliflower that were nice. Come to think of it, our Brussel sprouts did not do well either. Time to pull out some of my mother's gardening books.



Trotsky	Jan 23 2016, 01:49 AM Post #22
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	Dana Jan 19 2016, 06:12 AM As with any other commodity. When the price is right we can produce and compete. We have not been able to grow for less than California or Florida until we started getting the $14.00/lb asparagus. Sounds parallel to Alberta's situation with oil tar sands.



campy	Jan 23 2016, 02:23 AM Post #23
Handyman Extraordinaire Posts: 28,720 Group: no politics Member #204 Joined: February 2, 2006	Trotsky Jan 23 2016, 01:49 AM Dana Jan 19 2016, 06:12 AM As with any other commodity. When the price is right we can produce and compete. We have not been able to grow for less than California or Florida until we started getting the $14.00/lb asparagus. Sounds parallel to Alberta's situation with oil tar sands. Trotsky. It's not a well known fact but Alberta has many oil wells and natural gas wells. It's not all oil sands. The oil sands have been demonized politically.



Trotsky	Jan 23 2016, 05:20 AM Post #24
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	Even the New York Times led the Business section yesterday on the woes of the Canadian cauliflower prices. (I was happy today to find acorn squash at $.99/lb. today. It will go well with tomorrow's roast duck. And cabbage at $.33/lb, perhaps for Durgan's sauerkraut or a curried Indian dish?)



itchy feet	Jan 23 2016, 05:30 AM Post #25
Advanced Member Posts: 88 Group: Member Member #795 Joined: August 10, 2010	Yesterday I picked up a 2 lb bag of cauliflower flowerets for $2.50. Of course this is in Arizona and at a road side farmer's market. On another note, weiners and fried cabbage (as mentioned by Angora). We have them couple of times a year, with plain boiled potatoes. We call it our "Poor Man's Dinner." Although with the price of weiners (the ones wrapped individually in cellophane) it's no longer cheap.



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