By Jason Stemm (@NYCubsFan As the senate prepares to debate a new farm bill and food advocates are clamoring for a larger piece of the pie to go to specialty crops (think sweet corn and blueberries) rather than commodity crops (think wheat and corn for processing), Walt Disney Co. made an announcement that will cause [...]
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5 Restaurant Food Trends from NRA
May 10, 2012 – 2:47 pm
By Jason Stemm The annual restaurant show in Chicago offers a peak into the future if you know where to look. Smoked basmati rice, zero calorie noodles and All-Natural/Gluten-Free everything align with current trends, but where are things heading? Here are 5 areas to watch out for in 2012. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: Nancy Kruse’s [...]
IACP Ready to Take Bite Out of the Big Apple
March 29, 2012 – 2:00 pm
The International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) will converge on New York City for its annual conference this weekend. The “Fashion of Food” is this year’s theme, looking at food beyond just sustenance. Truly it can be appreciated on many levels for its flavor, aesthetics, texture and even the story behind how it arrived on [...]
Feeling Slimed by Food Labeling?
March 22, 2012 – 2:56 pm
By now you have probably heard of “finely textured beef” or at least its more popular name, “pink slime,” which has been in our ground beef for years, and recently brought to public attention. In fact, unless you have only consumed organic ground beef, you have probably ingested it. J.M. Hirsch did a great job [...]
Are Twinkies the Next Tobacco?
December 15, 2011 – 3:00 pm
By Jason Stemm (@NYCubsFan) What do Tony the Tiger and Joe Camel have in common? The question has been battled out in Washington over the last two years, under the radar of budget cuts and debt defaults. Millions of lobbying dollars have been spent by the food manufacturing industry to limit and even eliminate legislation [...]
A Look at Food Policy from the Nation’s Capital
November 10, 2011 – 3:04 pm
By Jason Stemm @NYCubsFan This past week I was in Washington DC for the International Foodservice Editorial Council’s annual conference. As president of the group, it was quite a bit different than the previous ten years I’ve attended. The group and conference are driven by the unique opportunity for editors and writers to network with [...]
whatcanbe for a Healthier Future
November 3, 2011 – 2:00 pm
By Jason Stemm (@NYCubsFan) At CRT/tanaka, we have a word, whatcanbe, which guides us in imagining the possibilities for ourselves and our clients. It is both a creative process and a cultural ethos that is ingrained across offices and practice areas. During a recent agency-wide retreat, we were asked to articulate our whatcanbe and share [...]
PMA Fresh Summit Offers Glimpse of the Future
October 20, 2011 – 9:14 am
By Jason Stemm @NYCubsFan I am just back from Atlanta and this year’s Fresh Summit, the annual conference attended by the global supply chain of growers, packagers, exporters and distributors from over 50 countries hosted by the Produce Marketing Association. There were many reasons to get excited about the produce industry, including new people, new [...]
Healthy Eating Deserves a Food Fight
October 13, 2011 – 2:00 pm
By Jason Stemm @NYCubsFan I’ll be heading down to Atlanta tomorrow for the Produce Marketing Association #FreshSummit. It has been six years since the show visited the Peach State, and a lot has changed in that time. According to the CDC, in 2005, about 33% of U.S. adults ate 2+ servings of fruit per day [...]
Steve Jobs-Inventor, Designer, Marketing Genius…a Buzz Bin Tribute
October 6, 2011 – 2:00 pm
By Jason Stemm (@NYCubsFan) A company lost a leader, an industry lost a visionary and a family lost a loved one yesterday when Steve Jobs passed away. He created and rebuilt a company into something than he may never have imagined as a young man in his parent’s garage. It reminded me of a friend [...]
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