Living

As the enduring popularity of cookbooks, recipes, and cooking shows indicate, we’re a food-centric species always on the lookout for the next delicious meal. With that desire for variety in mind, what’s on the menu in 2012?

If you said marriage, you zany old romantic you, you might be dismayed to find that recent statistics indicate you’re in the minority, chump.

It takes a lot of hustle at the gym to burn off a Big Mac, fries and large Coke. The same holds true for that Hefty bag of movie popcorn and super-size soda. The question some obesity prevention experts are asking, however, is would it make a difference if people knew just how much activity is necessary to burn off sugar-sweetened, fizzy drinks and junk food?

Indie darling and Stars singer Amy Millan points out her favourite haunts in her adopted hometown’s charming Plateau neighbourhood

Here’s hoping Santa picked up a copy of Maclean’s last week, and that he’s reading it twice. The news weekly has broken down the nation’s biggest cities into naughty and nice with its annual roundup of Canada’s Dangerous Cities.