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The walkway at the San Diego Convention Center—quite different from our hometown New York environment. We’re off to the Winter Fancy Food Show in San Diego, where we and 16,000 other trade professionals will fill the San Diego Convention Center to sample as much as we can of the 80,000 food products from 1,100…
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Photo of tuna sandwich courtesy of Stock.Xchng. Two long and informative interviews for your weekend leisure reading: 1. Chef Anthony Bourdain pontificates on eating both dung and tuna sandwiches. 2. Author* and U.C. Berkeley journalism professor Michael Pollan talks about breakfast and being 80% full. *In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, The Omnivore’s…
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Like coffee? Enter this week’s Gourmet Giveaway on THE NIBBLE.com. Answer four fun trivia questions about coffee. Whether you answer right or wrong, you’ll be entered into the prize drawing. The lucky winner will receive this Starbucks Coffee Sampler (photo at right), chock full of goodies: – 5 different Starbucks ground coffees, – 2 boxes…
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Cacao beans: victims of El Niño. According to the International Cocoa Organisation (ICCO), the world’s current cocoa shortfall is now 55% larger than previously thought, due to adverse weather conditions that caused crop reductions over the 2006/2007 season. The global production deficit is now estimated at 242,000 tonnes. Severe dry and windy conditions affected…
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Are you a standard cookie eater or a trendsetter? Although the overall $5.9 billion U.S. cookie market sales increased 14% in value from 2002 to 2007, standard cookies are losing ground and niche cookies are trending up. According to a new report by research firm Mintel, standard cookies still represent 57.5% of sales. But this…
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