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ON THE SHELF: CLASSY CONDIMENTS

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...

BETTER CRUNCHES: Snacks- Part 1 Fancy Foods Show 2015

TRENDS  NYC Artificial anything-particularly re: ingredients and food colorings-a disappearing act on snack food labels...even on crunchy eats which as tasty as they are, don't pretend to be nutritious-but a "Lesser Evil"-i.e. baked, healthier oils, non-GMO, organic (the real deal kind-USDA certified), and gluten free. The name says it all "Lesser Evil"=Buddha Bowl Foods...USDA organic (that means non-GMO certified too)...in one of the 'hot' food categories-gourmet salts...Himalayan Pink Salt  (or Sea Salt) on everything... Bottom Line: the emphasis is def. on the flavors (spicy is big)...and the textures. Highlights: Some crunchy sweets: From Morocco-crunchy buttery Orientines  Palmiers+crackery Craquants  Dip-able hybrid-melba toast- biscotti fusion- Almondina Toastees -no preservatives, no cholesterol, dairy free...4 flavors the best part of brownies - duh -the crunchy top-edges parts---violà-this genius 'invention...