Category: Food & Drink

Krispy Kreme and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups – Two Great Tastes that Taste Great Together?

Krispy Kreme issued two new doughnut flavors in a collaboration with Reese’s, and they’r either a diabetic’s nightmare or a chocolate-peanut butter lover’s dream come true. The doughnut chain will be offering limited-edition Reese’s Original Filled Peanut Butter Lovers and Reese’s Original Filled Chocolate Lovers doughnuts. These aren’t the Reese’s filled doughnuts Krispy Kreme has […]

Burger King’s Impossible Whopper Launches Nationwide this Month

Burger King is bringing its vegan Impossible Whopper nationwide, starting Aug. 8.  The nation’s second-largest burger chain began testing the plant-based burger from Impossible Foods at locations in St. Louis in April. Those Burger King locations saw traffic outperform national averages by 18.5% that month, according to a report from inMarket. McDonald’s, the largest burger […]

Fiesta del Albariño!

International Albariño Days, a celebration of the Albariño grape, are here!  We are encouraging everyone to open a bottle of Albariño, enjoy the fun, and share their experiences online with the hashtag #AlbarinoFiesta.   The official International Albariño day is on August 1, but many people have started celebrating for a whole week (August 1 […]

Summer’s Hottest Ice Cream Cone Topping Is…

Three ice cream cones on display

…another Ice Cream Cone.  You heard me right.  As ridiculous as it sounds, it’s taken off like a rocket cone, as teeny ice cream cones atop larger ice cream cones seem to have become the biggest foodie trend of the summer.   All over Instagram, ice creameries, apparently stocked with baby-sized ice cream cones, are […]

Libation Inspiration at 2019 Summer Specialty Food Show

Specialty food sales continue to climb as more shoppers seek elevated experiences in everyday occasions. Hundreds of thousands of specialty food and beverage products were on display from more than 2,400 exhibiting companies at the Summer Fancy Food Show, held  last month in New York.   The specialty food market grew 9.8% between 2016 and […]

Much Ado About Mushrooms

At this year’s Summer Fancy Food Showcase in New York, mushrooms starred in a growing number of snack offerings. Portabellas and shiitakes masquerade as meat in plant-based jerky. South Mill Champs from Pennsylvania offered Shrooms Shrooms Splits Jerky, combining mushroom jerky with beef or turkey jerky as a nod to the “blended burger” trend in […]

New Specialty Food Trend: Grown Up Baby Food!

Specialty food sales continue to climb as more shoppers seek elevated experiences in everyday occasions. Hundreds of thousands of specialty food and beverage products were on display from more than 2,400 exhibiting companies at the Summer Fancy Food Show, held  last month in New York. The specialty food market grew 9.8% between 2016 and 2018 […]

Trends Revealed at Summer 2019 Fancy Foods Show

Hundreds of thousands of specialty food and beverage products were on display from more than 2,400 exhibiting companies at the 2019 Summer Fancy Food Show, held this June in New York.  This show has gotten increasingly more popular over the last few years, as specialty food sales continue to climb.  Apparently shoppers are seeking culinary […]

Could Drinking Orange Juice Increase Your Cancer Risk?

It’s not so much the fruit aspect, but the high sugar content in most fruit juices that are the culprit, but yes, drinking a lot of orange juice or sodas may increase the risk of contracting cancer, French scientists have claimed. In a study published Wednesday, researchers from Sorbonne Paris Cite University, said the consumption […]