Investing into local New York City establishments are seeing
lots of “green”
Trending Now: Locavesting, the new way entrepreneurs are getting funding for the start-ups operations with the help of local investors within their community
Find out tactics that can be used for your start-up
https://paigepapers.com/2011/08/15/locavestinginto_newyork_businesses/
Trending Now: Do-It-Yourself flavors, Kid Beverages and Ice Coffee are noted as the top three
The Food Channel highlights this year’s beverage trends
https://paigepapers.com/2011/08/15/foodchannel_trendsaug2011/
The Meatball Shop has started a circular craze.
Since the opening of The Meatball Shop in the Lower East Side and it’s second outpost that recently opened in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, people and chefs alike are engaging this childhood favorite rolled meat in full steam. You might also recall The Meatball Shop’s latest competitor, Meatball Factory which has declared that their meatballs will be better than what’s currently on the market. The Meatball Shop should be flattered by all of this fame around the infamous ball.
Meatball Meal. Photo Credited by http://www.blackbook.com
Chefs, such as Joeseph Rago of Island Mermaid, are now starting to incorporate these bite-size savories into their summer menu while others are implementing menu items in the shape of a ball.
Farmers Markets Are On The Rise
The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that farmers markets are up this summer by 17%. The locavore trend has spread across the nation and people are looking for more fresh food and produce which is a major factor in why more farmers markets are popping up.
7,125 farmers markets opened up this summer; compared to 6,132 last year in 2010. The biggest growth came from states where there wasn’t much interest in it, such as Texas, which saw a 46% increase in these markets.
Food trucks get around the new around the city
Food trucks gather to become food truck courts in private open spaces and their fan base continues to grow as strict laws increase
The Lot of Tap and The Long Island City Food Truck Court draw in mobile food vendors such as Treats Truck and Rickshaw Dumpling
Food Trucks, such as Wafels & Dinges, shift their strategies to comply with new laws by using
food carts
Food Trucks move to the outer boroughs– Staten Island and Queens are seeing more mobility
PR Newswire highlights a Technomic Food Truck Report, which shows that 91% of consumers strongly support food trucks, and only 7% said that their visits would decrease
Critics and consumers get sensitive about food descriptions
The Vocabulary for food and product descriptors becomes controversial
Steve’s Craft Ice Cream, which recently opened, wasn’t well received after using “curated and composed” to describe the product
Chow gives their list of 78 of the most annoying words used to describe food & products
Writer Rebecca Marx of Fork in the Road, a Village Voice food blog, deciphers the annoyance of words such as artisanal and curated
https://paigepapers.com/2011/07/29/fooddescriptionsbacklash/
Milk Production Is On The Rise
Milk production in the U.S. is steadily increasing each month and has been, consistently, for 17 months. Last month alone, the smallest increase to date since March 2010, production was up by 1.4% (15.4 billion pounds) in 23 of the milk-producing states.
Trending Now: Urban Gardens with a twist…
Restaurant-owned Gardens, Rooftop Gardens and Celebrity Guest Garden Experiences
Gotham Greens, a climate-controlled rooftop garden greenhouse located in Greenpoint Brooklyn, sees increase demand and now supplies produce to food retailers such as Whole Foods and Eataly
Gramercy Tavern’s chef, Michael Anthony teams up with Farm Share, a Westchester, NY-based company that brings small family farms to the marketplace, to provide shares of crops personally picked out by him. The program lasts until August.
Rather than sourcing fresh produce from other urban rooftop farms, Owners of Smorgas Chef created their own farm called Blenheim Hill
The Overlooked Ice Coffee Home Consumer Gets More Attention from Roasting Companies
According to the National Coffee Association, 73 percent of coffee that is consumed by Americans is prepared in the comfort of their home– so why didn’t roasting companies jump on this fact sooner. It’s probably because the popularity of ice coffee consumed at home was always questionable– until recently. 500 miliion ice coffee drinks were ordered at various eateries in 2010 compared to only 100 million in 2006. Now roasting companies like Green Mountain and Starbucks are finding ways to attract more consumers and gain revenue by embarking on a new "venture". A little more ice please.
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