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Best Bites from the Fancy Food Show, San Francisco

The Fancy Food Show was recently held in San Francisco. With over 1,300 exhibitors from around the world, it covered most of the Moscone Center. The products run the gamut from delicious and revelatory (the California-based cheeses) to disgusting and palate-destroying (a sunflower seed snack stands out). Here are some stand-outs from the show: hot chocolate from Oregon, salumi from Virginia, malva pudding from NorCal, and more.

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5 Comments | Posted by Jen Maiser, January 31, 2011 at 1:30 PM
Tagged: Fancy Food Show, San Francisco, trade shows

Forget Iowa, Heaven Is the All Candy Expo in Chicago

It would be difficult to overstate the joy I got from attending the All Candy Expo, the annual meeting/celebration put on in Chicago by the National Confectioners Association. The two-and-a-half-day spectacle gives candy companies a chance to introduce new products and tap into new markets; retailers a chance to discover products they have not sold before; distributors a chance to find new clients; and, most important, everyone a chance to try more different kinds of candy in three days than most people do in their lives. There were so many great things to try at the Candy Expo, and I feel the need to share a lot of it with the Serious Eats community. As a result, this is...

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10 Comments | Posted by Daniel Zemans, June 1, 2009 at 10:30 AM
Tagged: All Candy Expo, candy, Chicago, events, Flavor Guides, Illinois, trade shows

All Candy, All the Time

The All Candy Expo runs from today to Wednesday in Chicago. McCormick Place will house about 500 booths dedicated to, among other things, "popcorn" (sounds a bit repetitive), meat snacks (sounds a bit repulsive), and chocolate. Alas, as a bubble-gum-colored box on the event's website explains,"—sorry!—the expo is not open to the public. Only trade professionals may attend." Lucky that blogging is such an esteemed profession. Though I won't be in attendance, the ringleaders from Chicagoist, Candy Blog, and Candy Addict will be filing regular reports over the next couple of days, hopefully checking in with Jacques Torres and Guittard's head pasty chef Donald Wressell....

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Post a Comment | Posted by Emily Stone, September 17, 2007 at 12:00 PM
Tagged: Chicago, chocolate, Serious Chocolate, trade shows