By John DeMers History was on the plate everywhere in New Orleans recently when the American Cuisine and Hospitality Symposium attracted luminaries from all across the country to discuss how far we’ve traveled. After all, the first (and only other) such symposium in 1983 is still considered one of the foundational moments in American cuisine. And…
Category: Trends
Global Foods Trends for 2018
Food trends, like beauty, are apparently in the eye of the beholder. At least that’s the impression you get from scanning a dozen or so of those year-end trend pieces looking ahead to the foods of 2018. Reading such things can be fun, of course, filled with predictions that may or may not make it…
Summer Entertaining Made Easy!
My husband, Case, and I have been entertaining some this summer, and it occurred to us, we have learned a thing or two over the years on great summer entertaining tips. This summer we have thrown parties at Das Peach Haus as well in Calistoga, California in the beautiful Napa Valley. We have put together…
SF Fancy Food Show
After tasting 80,000 foods and drinks from more than 1,500 exhibitors at the Winter Fancy Food Show in San Francisco, I think I have some idea what we’ll all be enjoying in the year ahead. Or maybe, after doing precisely that for three days with my colleagues at Fischer & Wieser, I have less of…