ingredients

Sriracha

Sriracha—the “spicy rooster sauce”—picks up heat on menus as popularity rises for this Asian condiment. It’s adding a fiery punch to the usual stir-fries, soups, noodles and BBQ sauces, but also showing up in fine-dining seafood dishes, cocktails, sandwiches and sweets.

Consumer Trends

Southern comfort

Nobody does comfort food quite like the South. The current popularity of Southern cooking taps into the need for comfort combined with our cravings for American regional delights.

Here are some of the ideas, trends and smart strategies we heard that could help all foodservice operators, regardless of their channel.

Find out which 10 restaurant trends we kept encountering in our journey through the National Restaurant Association’s annual convention in Chicago.

Mellow yellow or spicy brown, this reliable condiment dresses up a hot dog or adds spark to a sauce.

Up, up, and away. Beef prices. Cheese prices. Seafood, gas, insurance. Labor costs, as states from New York to Oregon—and many in between—prepare to hike minimum wage.

Jalapeño Bacon from Hormel’s authentically flavored Café H line starts the morning off with a peppery kick. Menu it with Western omelets, huevos...

No Disneyfied tourist destination, Brooklyn remains a diverse patchwork of old neighborhoods, many of them highly ethnic, each with a distinctive character.

A great way to understand a new cuisine is to break it down into its basic flavor principles. What are flavor principles? We're glad you asked.

Appearing earlier this month on the PBS NewsHour, William Hubbard told correspondent Betty Ann Bowser that while the food supply is not dangerous, food –...

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