Biography
Nancy Kruse
Nancy Kruse is a menu maven and president of The Kruse Company. She is a well known and highly regarded expert on menu trends. Her monthly State of the Plate column provides insight into the trends influencing menu innovation.
Articles by
Nancy Kruse
Page 1Food
Pizza serves as a blank canvas for culinary innovation—in the U.S. at least
State of the Plate: Italians are strict about their pies, but American pizza chefs have an array of seemingly endless riffs on the popular dish, menu trends columnist Nancy Kruse writes.
Beverage
Will consumers stay thirsty amid this tsunami of beverages?
Nancy Kruse and Lisa Jennings swim with the gummy sharks to understand the rising tide of drinks, from dirty sodas to turmeric lattes.