Coming to a market near you? Vegan foie gras, Super Mario cookies, soup in tea bags and chickpea marshmallow creme
Imagine a convention center the size of about 10 football fields filled with endless rows of specialty food products. One booth is hawking Wagyu beef jerky, another wants to introduce you to gochujang cheese. There are cauliflower snack puffs, pickle dip, plant-based shrimp, a plethora of nonalcoholic beverages and Snickers coffee. The Japan External Trade Organization has multiple rows of products from all over the country and a chef making chicken teriyaki during a live cooking demo. This is the Winter Fancy Food show.
The annual trade show took place last month in Las Vegas. It's put on by the , a nonprofit trade organization founded in 1952 whose members include artisans, importers, purveyors, retailers and distributors in the specialty food world. Thousands of people roam the convention center during the three-day show, but none so knowledgeable, or popular, as.
