Market Report
- Category: Market Report
- Friday, 15 June 2018
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Vacationers will take to the skies in record numbers this summer. Air travel can be very stressful with TSA checkpoints and managing personal affects.
Feeling good at the end of a flight may depend on how well and what we eat and drink inside the airport terminal.
Hydration is essential to having a good travel experience. Bring a portable water bottle to be filled once inside security clearance or purchase bottled water at vendor locations. Drink up!
Avoid beverages known to upset the tummy. Too much coffee, alcohol or orange juice will bother most people. Order more soothing drinks like club soda or herbal teas.
Fruits like berries, pineapple, cantaloupe, cucumbers and watermelon contain a high percentage of water.
Feeling good at the end of a flight may depend on how well and what we eat and drink inside the airport terminal.
Hydration is essential to having a good travel experience. Bring a portable water bottle to be filled once inside security clearance or purchase bottled water at vendor locations. Drink up!
Avoid beverages known to upset the tummy. Too much coffee, alcohol or orange juice will bother most people. Order more soothing drinks like club soda or herbal teas.
Fruits like berries, pineapple, cantaloupe, cucumbers and watermelon contain a high percentage of water.
- Category: Market Report
- Friday, 08 June 2018
- Hits: 59
Sure, there are more ways than one to accomplish any given task. Or cut a melon, pineapple or mango.
When amateur knife skills clash with more expert techniques, there is a lot to be learned.
Anyone can wield a knife blade. Exacting just the right cuts to extract every bit of fruit without waste can be tricky. Doing so safely is yet another feat.
Round-shaped fruits are especially unruly. Picture a large cantaloupe or honeydew melon rolling around the countertop. There is a tendency to judo chop it dead center to stop that action.
Deft hands will exercise patience and execute a plan.
One clever move is to first cut both ends of the melon off. This creates a flat base on which to stand the melon on end.
When amateur knife skills clash with more expert techniques, there is a lot to be learned.
Anyone can wield a knife blade. Exacting just the right cuts to extract every bit of fruit without waste can be tricky. Doing so safely is yet another feat.
Round-shaped fruits are especially unruly. Picture a large cantaloupe or honeydew melon rolling around the countertop. There is a tendency to judo chop it dead center to stop that action.
Deft hands will exercise patience and execute a plan.
One clever move is to first cut both ends of the melon off. This creates a flat base on which to stand the melon on end.
- Category: Market Report
- Friday, 01 June 2018
- Hits: 80
Apples and oranges are great.
No one refutes their solid nutritional value or culinary versatility.
By the time June rolls around, it’s time to mix things up in the fruit department. We crave the taste of summer in all its stone fruit and berry glory.
Every trip to the grocer or farmers market is a deliberate pursuit for what’s new in the season.
Early California cherries have found their way to the stands. The season looks to be a short and sweet one with a limited crop this year. Northwest cherries will quickly follow. No need to pout with Rainiers and red varieties like Chelan, Teiton and Bings rushed to market upon harvest.
No one refutes their solid nutritional value or culinary versatility.
By the time June rolls around, it’s time to mix things up in the fruit department. We crave the taste of summer in all its stone fruit and berry glory.
Every trip to the grocer or farmers market is a deliberate pursuit for what’s new in the season.
Early California cherries have found their way to the stands. The season looks to be a short and sweet one with a limited crop this year. Northwest cherries will quickly follow. No need to pout with Rainiers and red varieties like Chelan, Teiton and Bings rushed to market upon harvest.
- Category: Market Report
- Thursday, 24 May 2018
- Hits: 91
Americans have a serious love affair with snacking. Those of a certain age might still define a snack as a quick midday grab for a Snickers bar or bag of potato chips.
Traditional daily eating patterns are built around three “square and structured” meals. Snacks were supplemental to those three squares.
This behavior is yielding to more modern eating styles characterized by frequent snacking. These snacking events occur in a more unsystematic way and varies from person to person.
Snacking used to be about diversion, fun and indulging in food cravings. There is a shift toward health, wellness, fresh and premium snack foods.
Pleasure is still a component to snacking, but so are nourishment, optimization and convenience.
Traditional daily eating patterns are built around three “square and structured” meals. Snacks were supplemental to those three squares.
This behavior is yielding to more modern eating styles characterized by frequent snacking. These snacking events occur in a more unsystematic way and varies from person to person.
Snacking used to be about diversion, fun and indulging in food cravings. There is a shift toward health, wellness, fresh and premium snack foods.
Pleasure is still a component to snacking, but so are nourishment, optimization and convenience.
- Category: Market Report
- Thursday, 17 May 2018
- Hits: 112
The Blossom Hill orchards are located in Patterson, California. Some suggest this location to be the world’s best apricot-growing region.
Lucich — Santos Farms have been family-owned for more than 90 years. For over 35 years, they’ve developed expertise in growing, packing and shipping California apricots and apriums under the Blossom Hill Orchard name.
Four generations oversee the daily operations. Their overarching goal is to provide customers with the best eating, sweetest, juicy apricots.
Jim Lucich, sales representative for Blossom Hill, said the 2018 crop in Patterson is lighter than usual. Weather played a part with the crop set. Chill hours were lower than needed, and some cold and rain that came after the bloom had an effect on the crop.
The company grows its apricots in a sustainable-minded environment. Lucich and Santos Farms and Blossom Hill Packing’s objective is to produce premium delicious fruit with food safety in mind.
Lucich — Santos Farms have been family-owned for more than 90 years. For over 35 years, they’ve developed expertise in growing, packing and shipping California apricots and apriums under the Blossom Hill Orchard name.
Four generations oversee the daily operations. Their overarching goal is to provide customers with the best eating, sweetest, juicy apricots.
Jim Lucich, sales representative for Blossom Hill, said the 2018 crop in Patterson is lighter than usual. Weather played a part with the crop set. Chill hours were lower than needed, and some cold and rain that came after the bloom had an effect on the crop.
The company grows its apricots in a sustainable-minded environment. Lucich and Santos Farms and Blossom Hill Packing’s objective is to produce premium delicious fruit with food safety in mind.
- Category: Market Report
- Thursday, 10 May 2018
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There are ten celebrated national holidays in the United States, so named by congress. After those stayed holidays, petitions get introduced to local, state and national officials for commemorating other worthy days.
Fewer than 150 are granted in an average year, across all categories, by the president of the United States. Still others get invoked at a more local level proclamation.
Even so, that still gives us everything from National Pomegranate Month and National Cherry or Pecan Pie Day to draw attention to the produce industry and ingredients worthy of a food holiday.
However manufactured, some of the food related holidays make perfect sense. National Barbecue Day and National Hamburger Day coincide with the upcoming Memorial Day Holiday weekend.
For most of the country, Memorial Day weekend launches the summer outdoor cooking season. We build memories around sharing food and creating food events in more casual environment.
Fewer than 150 are granted in an average year, across all categories, by the president of the United States. Still others get invoked at a more local level proclamation.
Even so, that still gives us everything from National Pomegranate Month and National Cherry or Pecan Pie Day to draw attention to the produce industry and ingredients worthy of a food holiday.
However manufactured, some of the food related holidays make perfect sense. National Barbecue Day and National Hamburger Day coincide with the upcoming Memorial Day Holiday weekend.
For most of the country, Memorial Day weekend launches the summer outdoor cooking season. We build memories around sharing food and creating food events in more casual environment.
