Summer is almost upon us, and if you’re out and about at a concert, festival, picnic, or looking for food options to take with you out into the wild, wild, wilderness, a great and trending option is a charcuterie board. Excuse me, a what? Charcuterie, a French tradition (of course), is the “art” of preparing and displaying cured meats and cheeses. In other words, its a fancy meat and cheese tray. Those crazy French. But it’s so much more. A…
As a watcher of all things food and travel related, I have to ask – what is going on in R&D at these food companies? Look, I understand that in order to “increase market share”, it is necessary to think outside of the box and come up with innovative and creative ideas, but some of these flavor combinations? I just don’t know what’s going on in these marketing meetings anymore. Here are some examples – and yes, these are all…
There are some foods that instantly transport you to a specific place and time the moment you eat them. They trigger specific memories (both good and bad) the second that familiar taste hits your tongue. For me, one of those foods is Gibble’s potato chips. As soon as a bag is opened and I smell that heady aroma of lard and salt, I am an 11-year old kid again, sitting on my father’s front porch at a summer family reunion. …