Fruit

The traditional Latino diet provided an abundance of healthful effects. Fruits, vegetables and processing techniques central to the diets of the Aztecs, Mayans and Incans improved, rather than reduced, healthfulness. However, modern Latin-Americans in the United States face nutritional and related medical challenges their ancestors would never have seen coming. Buying power In the 1970s, USDA coined the term “Hispanic”—derived ...
04/30/2008

Tarts can be the “little black dress” of the menu. Elegant or rustic, sweet or savory, classic or contemporary, they’re endlessly versatile, always appropriate and always perceived as a little bit special. Similar to pies, tarts traditionally consist of sweet or savory fillings in a crust. But while pie fillings are often enclosed in a second top layer of pastry—or ...
04/29/2008

Legend has it that the Roman Emperor Nero created the first frozen desserts when he set up a chain of people to deliver snow from the mountains directly to his dining hall for blending with wine and honey. Chinese sweets-seekers blended snow with combinations of fruit juices, fruit pulp and honey. Marco Polo eventually brought these recipes back to ...
03/26/2008

No time for breakfast? No problem. “In their rush to get to work or to school, most Americans don’t have time for a long, leisurely breakfast. Thus, packaged products that can be carried from home and consumed at work, or eaten behind the wheel of the car, are in strong demand,” says Tatjana Meerman, publisher of the report, “On-the-Go ...
02/29/2008

Baby boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, account for 78 million people, or 26% of the American population, according to MetLife’s Mature Market Institute, New York. Every 7.5 seconds, another boomer hits the big 5-0, and 40 million of them have already passed the 50 mark. This booming market, estimated at $2 trillion according to Brandweek, New York, warrants ...
01/23/2008