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The Food Channel has released their much-anticipated Top Ten Food Trends for 2011, identifying the most significant food trends that are supposed to drive how we will all eat throughout the new year. From buying to cooking to consuming, this is the NostraFOODmus for the next twelve months... so gather round food-lovers to hear your future! Kay Logsdon, editor of The Food Channel, says that "the new economy has created a boldness and willingness to change how we work, how we cook and how we eat. All of our 2011 trends reflect that in some way”. Well, it's all been done before some say, but let's see if these particular [...]

No, not cookies before dinner! Remember when 'apps' meant a small dish you'd eat before your entree? The smart phone revolution has essentially forever redefined the word, with modern food 'apps' more aptly referring to hand held computer applications, not tasty morsels pre-meal. With phones becoming our computers on-the-go, some of the more commonly used food apps have to do with locating restaurants, essentially location-based apps helping out for our in-the-now food needs. Other apps, becoming increasing more popular as cookbooks go the way of dinosaurs, are recipe apps.... allowing today's home cooks to access a wealth of cooking instruction directly from their phones, in their kitchens, when they're needed. [...]

Foodies love food! Is there anything more obvious? Unfortunately, we're too often restricted to what foods we are able to buy within our own local area, especially when it comes to artisan products. But there are so many regional specialties that we miss out on! So many great, artisan foods whose producers simply don't have a national reach. Wouldn't it be wonderful if there was a way to bring them all together? To make them available to a national audience? Well, ask no more. RegionalBest.com is an online food marketplace where shoppers can buy direct from passionate local food producers. The site features hundreds of foods produced by cheesemakers, bakers, [...]

There is nothing worse than bad wine, but it comes with the territory. Wine bottles have been sealed with natural cork for centuries, and the product is fallible, so you lose bottles to the air, it's an accepted fact. The solution? Screw caps we though. But the problem is, some wines do need just a bit of oxygen to mature properly as they age. While winemakers have been flocking to the cap for their whites, it's just not catching on as quickly with the reds.. and for good reason. Though this all may change now. Jamak, one of the world's largest manufacturers of silicone products, has introduced Sil-Cork®, a wine [...]