Month: February 2011

Fresh Not Less Calories Means Healthy to Restaurant Diners

Americans are looking for more healthful options at restaurants and other foodservice outlets but define healthy eating based on quality features rather than fewer calories, according to a recent foodservice market research report by The NPD Group, a leading market research company.

Gluten-free At The Fore During The 2011 International Pizza Expo

At the 2011 International Pizza Expo®, the world’s oldest and largest pizza-only trade show, gluten-free industry experts Alice Bast, President and Founder of the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness (NFCA), and Bryan Scherer, Penford Food Ingredient Co. Director of Research and Development, will hold an educational session entitled, Understanding Gluten-free Foodservice Opportunities.

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As a child in the ’60s and ’70s, growing up on an Illinois dairy farm, the concept of eating local was simply logical and frugal—and sometimes the only way to eat. Many items on our supper table were raised and grown by my family or harvested from neighboring farms. Raised by children of the Great Depression, “growing your own” […]