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Restaurant Guests Making Healthful Choices

NPD: Consumers straying from foods high in fat, toward items including grilled chicken, fruit and yogurt For years Americans have talked about the importance of eating more healthfully in restaurants, and now it seems as if they’re finally beginning to take their own advice, according to a new study from The NPD Group. The Chicago-based [...]

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The Science Behind Why We Love Ice Cream

Why people prefer certain foods over others depends largely on a combination of taste and texture. While taste sensations are fairly well understood, scientists are just beginning to unravel the mystery of food texture. Now, researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia have found that an enzyme in saliva called amylase, which breaks [...]

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Pies top 2011 restaurant trend list

Pies, both sweet and savory, will be the top restaurant trend in 2011, a California consultancy predicts. Andrew Freeman, whose Andrew Freeman & Co. of San Francisco consults on marketing for restaurants and hotels nationwide, detailed some top trends in a webinar Wednesday. “If I had one trend — one trend — of the year [...]

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Greek Yogurt: A Case Study in how Consumers Redefine Value

As U.S. consumers cope with the third year of an economic downturn, which can now be best described as a jobless recovery, an interesting trend has emerged. Consumers have re-calibrated spending and redefined the traditional norms of value. During the recession, value was about consumers trading down and making sacrifices. Today, it is increasingly about [...]

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Versatile, simple, it’s universal yogurt

Simple, elemental and versatile, yogurt is a universal foodstuff. In fact, if cuisines were like Jungian myths, yogurt would be at the forefront of our collective culinary unconscious. Traditions of yogurtlike foods have been popular for millennia in the area food writer Anne Mendelson calls “Yogurtistan” (the Middle East, the Balkans, and northern Africa). But [...]

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