Added 21 October, 2013
Locally sourced healthful foods are popping up everywhere, from rooftop gardens to the new organic garden being installed in AT&T Park, the baseball stadium in San Francisco. Now the New York-based airline JetBlue is putting a farmer's market into their terminal at JFK, offering homemade apple pies, jams, honey, peach relish and more. The...
Added 16 October, 2013
There was a time when musicians looked to record sales to make a living. Now that source or revenue has all but dried up, as consumers download songs cheaply, or even free. That has bands looking elsewhere for revenue, like concert ticket and T-shirt sales. It also has groups looking at non-traditional brand extensions that both raise awareness...
Added 11 October, 2013
London-based Meantime Brewery is one of the most technically advanced brewers around. They are also quite and marketing-savvy and understand that locally-sourced foods are on-trend. Also trending are items that are created by the same people who consume them. Back in March, the brewery planted hops in locations around the city, including the...
Added 10 October, 2013
Like many people these days, we are obsessed with beer. As we have pointed out before, the world in general, and Americans in particular, are living in a beer Renaissance. There have been times in history when there have been more breweries, but at no time has the quality been better and variety more broad. Witness the huge number of micro-...
Added 7 October, 2013
They hype about 3D printing is everywhere. But few people still understand how this new technology will directly affect them. Many of the first 3D printed items to come down the pike are wholly whimsical, like little toys and plastic knick-knacks. But what better way to showcase this tech, but on a plate? We have already written about the 3D-...
Added 5 October, 2013
We recently wrote quite a bit about the many products that are being marketed specifically to women, even though the items themselves are not at all gender-specific, like earplugs. Now PepsiCo, the makers of Pepsi and other soft drinks, is marketing a bottled-water brand aimed squarely at the teenage. PepsiCo is using its own Aquafina water brand...
Added 4 October, 2013
A few months ago we reported on an initiative by Heineken in which they put their beer in square bottles rather than round ones in order to be more ecological. The reasoning is that square bottles can be packed more efficiently, saving both fuel and money on shipping. Additionally, packing more bottles into boxes saves a lot of cardboard and trees...
Added 3 October, 2013
Until now, all the crabs you've ever eaten have been fished from the wild. That makes them expensive and, in many cases, unsustainable. Especially in Southeast Asia where diners are crazy for crab. Now for the first time, business groups are answering the demand by developing crab hatcheries. Based in Malaysia, Texchem Resources is leading the...
Added 2 October, 2013
As economic confidence grows, in New York at least, 2013 marks the reverse in a trend with residents eating out more than the year before. According to the Zagat 2014 restaurant survey, people in the city ate in restaurants, or purchased ready-made meals 58 percent of the time, up from 49 percent just a year previous. Led by younger casual diners...
Added 2 October, 2013
We don't usually give financial advice on WikiTrend, but since the gluten-free trend shows no sign of abating, and in fact is getting even larger, we're taking a long, hard look at what's trending food-wise to fulfill this dietary anomaly. As we've mentioned before, celiac disease, which is stabilized by eating a gluten-free diet, is a condition...