Where can you walk into a room filled with gourmet foods from all corners of the earth, and enjoy the attention of vendors who entreat you to try whatever you want? Why, the annual Fancy Food Show. If this event is at all indicative of the life of a food buyer, that life is an enviable one indeed.
I walked into the Javits Center with a food industry friend, and we were immediately plied with grilled Christis halloumi cheese from Cyprus. As we walked around, we saw that there was a preponderance of cheese, olives and chocolate. In the cheese category, we greatly enjoyed the luscious ValleBianca mozzarella di bufala and spicy Gorgonzola. Some other finds were the Cuevas marrons glaces from Spain, artisanal garlic pesto gorgonzola wood-fired pizzas from Pizza Roma, Dufflet maple-walnut cookies, fresh spinach-ricotta ravioli from Lazzaroni and Dolcetto tiramisu piroulines.
To quench our thirst, there was Metromint peppermint water and the delightful new fruit juices from Honest Tea. The limeade was amazing, with just a hint of sugar. (We weren't quite as fond of the Ginger Soother - it needed more zip.)
In the midst of all this, there was a woman passing out flyers advertising "Lose Weight In A Week!" How did she get in there?!?
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
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My sister worked at that show and she told us that certain days were open to the public. I wondered who would go to such a show, so now I know. It seems I would have enjoyed it myself
Dan, I don't want to mislead anyone, so I wanted to write that according to the NASFT, the Fancy Food Show is "exclusively for business people in the specialty food trade."
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