LYRA MAG.

TRENDS-Fancy Food Show 2015 Shelf stable additions add big taste to home-cooked, plain ole or gourmet meals...oils, spices, mustards, catsups, and sauces...have gone glam...akin to fines wines that invite appreciative sips, embodying characteristics of terroir , weather, primo ingredients and purveyors' know-how. Other trends for these palate enhancers...like the rest of the Fancy Foods show...ingredients that skew 'natural', non-GMO certified + USDA organic labels. (Fyi-Salt gets a separate, later post). even bottled like fine wines... ATLAS Olive Oils from MOROCCO-extra virgin cold pressed from 3 farms in foothills of Atlas Mountains OILS---olive, hemp, or from fruit seeds---healthy fat claims and added nuances of flavors- even the most undiscerning eaters can appreciate the differences and what the possibilities are-added to dishes. From KALDI ...award winning organic extra virgin olive oil -cold extracted ...from rare Kolovi+Adramytiani Greek olives=fl...

NYC/SLC-Fancy Food Show-Outdoor Retailer Seeds and nuts---are the on trend old is new-ingredients-getting top billing in healthy types of crunchy snacks....that are increasingly non-GMO certified---which is what USA consumers want----and don't see as a "marketing ploy." Why that is so hard to get ----baffles us . HEMP is superfood hot ---just too hot for the Feds to allow this multi-tasking crop to be grown in the USA haaaa . From Manitoba, Canada  -Just Hemp Foods ...serves up non-GMO tasty Toasted Salted Hemp Seed-that are great out of the convenient size resealable 1oz bag....the Hulled Hemp Seed...we sprinkled on oatmeal and a green salad-for added nutty crunch taste -that's more like pepitas-in texture...not peanut peanuts. A vegan protein source too- and healthy Omega-3 and Omega-6 balance (1:3), 18+ amino acids, allergen free seeds with 10 grams protein per serving.  Chosen Foods...(name still cracks us up) bites with Chia are chewy crunchy de...