Foodservice

In Italy, as you may have heard, there’s a new law that doubles as “a marketing tool to brand Naples forever as the cradle of pizza,” reports Al Baker in The New York Times. The law was passed in May, “at the behest of the Association of Real Neapolitan Pizza, a group with 2,500 members worldwide,” with the support of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi himself. [Read more…] about Legal Pizza…

lockbuster has a very big-footed rival about to stomp on its turf: Ronald McDonald. McDonald’s (MCD) on Monday will announce plans to begin testing DVD rental kiosks at all 105 Denver store
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. “Innovation is what consumers are looking for, particularly in the small, routine things in their life,” says PepsiCo ceo Steven S. Reinemund, as quoted by Diane Brady in BusinessWeek (6/14/04). For PepsiCo, that outlook translates into “an intense lack of sentimentality about its principal brands.” [Read more…] about New Pepsi

Italian restaurants were the first to give up offering butter with bread. They replaced the butter with olive oil, which was poured into small plates and garnished with garlic or herbs. Other establishments followed suit. [Read more…] about Restaurants cover the spread

Although ascetics long have experimented with uncooked food as a path to spirituality and long life, a new generation of chefs is winning a wider audience with dishes that are as much about flavor as health. In the hands of culinary luminaries such as Charlie Trotter, the raw food diet is being transformed from regimen to cuisine with blenders, juicers and dehydrators.

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With consumers moving toward healthful products, prospects for soy-based beverages have never been higher.

An increasing awareness to ensure overall good health has brought a new category to the beverage industry: functional beverages. These beverages come from the notion that drinks should not only quench thirsts but also provide additional health benefits such as replenishing nutrition, providing energy, preventing ailments and promoting healthy lifestyles. The trend toward sipping functional beverages on a regular basis is likely to continue to grow as the population makes dietary alterations to be more healthful

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Fish marketing consultant Howard Johnson of H.M. Johnson & Associates has tracked a slight increase in farmed salmon prices but noted wild prices are up much more. He added the buzz was all wild salmon at this year’s International Boston Seafood Show, where Legal Sea Foods, a Boston-based chain of 26 restaurants, announced a new line of wild Alaskan salmon dishes.

Last January, the journal Science published a major study that found increased levels of cancer-causing PCBs in farmed fish over wild fish.

And in 2002, a court ruling required grocery stores to label farmed fish as containing dye to turn the flesh pink. Next fall, federal law requires stores to label fish with the country they come from.

“What we have now is an informed public that wants our product,” said Daryl Bogardus, skipper of the Pices, tied up across the dock from Dixson’s Dragonet. “Instead of taking a back seat to farmed fish, we’re getting the price we should.”

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — People who say they are addicted to chocolate or pizza may not be exaggerating, U.S.-based scientists said Tuesday.

A brain scan study of normal, hungry people showed their brains lit up when they saw and smelled their favorite foods in much the same way as the brains of cocaine addicts when they think about their next snort.

“Food presentation significantly increased metabolism in the whole brain (by 24 percent) and these changes were largest in superior temporal, anterior insula, and orbitofrontal cortices,” they wrote.

These areas are associated with addiction. [Read more…] about Study:Chocolate,BBQ addiction may be real – Apr 21, 2004