After spending three full days on the floors of the largest trade food show in the USA, I noticed new trends, observed the consolidation of others and couldn't stop tasting new, tasty or weird products available. Here are my observations.
The question is: do you need them?
The 2012 Summer Fancy Food Show, featuring over 180,000 products, is wrapping up in Washington, D.C. Here's some of the highlights of this year's show...
It's dark, chewy and protein-packed. It's fruity-sweet and studded with nuts. Sticky on the inside but smooth on the outside, it travels well. It's history's first energy bar.
The Fancy Food Show, a vast spread of 180,000 different products including cheese, chocolate and olive oil, is happening through July 12 in Washington...
Imagine a large room filled with endless samples of 180,000 different products: cheese, chocolate, olive oil and more. For three days every summer, th...
Making the headlines yesterday were the season opener for the New Amsterdam Market (NAM; the market we need and deserve) and the annual summer Fancy F...
A phantasmagoria of every style of condiment, sauce, chocolate bars and various packaged smoked salmons among the many foods sampled there, the Summer Fancy Food Show provides an education.
At the Fancy Food Show, artificially enhanced products like Marble Pop were a distinct minority. Sustainability was in the air-- and many fancy food producers were breathing in big gulps of the stuff.
