Hey, it's Hess from the B104 Ladies Room! I admit it! I'm a foodie! I'm excited to try all the NEW food trends for 2013! Lets just hope I don't gain 10lbs this year! :)
This years big food trends:
Coconut. In canned juice or as an ingredient or simply a dried, unsweetened snack, coconut was legion at the show. Pouring tastes as fast as he could, Benny San Andres of Sun Tropics of San Ramon, Calif., talked up the clear liquid's healthful properties. "One can has the potassium of five-and-a-half bananas," he said of the juice his company imported from Thailand.
Vegetable and fruit oils. You use olive oil, once bought walnut oil and tasted truffle oil. But how about Austrian pumpkin seed oil? Or tomato seed oil? Or cherry pit oil or chili seed oil? Marietta De Angelo spent a year as an exchange student on a farm in Neuruppersdorf, Austria. There she learned to love pumpkin seed oil, which is drizzled on anything from salad to vanilla ice cream (really). She and her husband now run Culinary Imports in Rowley, Mass., and import the oil. They also sell cherry seed oil -- "good on fish and ham" -- and tomato oil -- "great in salad dressing," she says.
Beer as an ingredient. The past several decades have seen a resurgence in the art of brewing. Now beer is making its way into foods, such as the Beer Flats crackers from Daelia's Food in Cincinnati. The crackers come in porter and pilsner flavors. For serious beer lovers, there's Beer Candy from Santa Clara, Calif. Computer programmer and longtime brewer Steve Casselman started making beer candy a few years ago and has branched out into beer jelly. It is strong stuff -- no slight beer taste here. A spoonful of jelly tastes like a serious swig of strong stout. "It's really good on pancakes," Casselman said. "You take the first bite and you think, 'This isn't right.' Then with the second bite, 'That's OK.' And by the third bite you're thinking, 'That's pretty good!' "
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(From USATODAY.com)
