International travel is one of the great joys of being human in this day and age. I recently discovered the joys of holiday-making in Portugal, among other European destinations. One of the reasons I keep going back is their seafood cuisine, egg custard tarts, and Portuguese wine and Port.To back up a little, Fish and Chips is to the English what steak and potatoes is to Americans. The most quintessentially universal meal in the culture, an example of something your fathers, and their fathers, and their fathers fathers ate all the way back as far as memory stretches. And for the English, ...

What makes a really bad choice for innovation in a fast food menu? When people react to your hope of a great success by actually suing you for millions of dollars. That's what happened after McDonald's introduced the whole Super Sizing concept back in 1993. You got a big Mac, 40-plus ounces of soda and an extra large 7 ounce holder with french fries. While it was phenomenally popular, it was taken off the menu in 2004.The company tried to put a spin on it that they just wanted to help their customers eat healthier; but industry experts believe that McDonald's did it because they didn't like ...