| Fresh or Frozen, Italian Foods to Top $13.8 Billion in 2011!
(PRLEAP.COM) New York, April 3, 2007 Americas increasing consumption of mass quantities of pizza and pasta is expected to take the retail market for Italian Foods from nearly $12 billion in 2006 to more than $13.8 billion in 2011, according to Italian Foods in the U.S., a new report from market research firm Packaged Facts. Recent market growth has been driven by the pizza and pizza products category which brings in more than 45% of total Italian food sales at retail. Sales in this category topped $5.3 billion in 2006, a jump of 2% over 2005 figures. Pasta sauce and pasta each make up slightly more than 21% of the market. The smallest category, Italian cheeses, experienced significant gains over the last two years due in part to increased demand for natural and gourmet varieties. Capitalizing on the current health and wellness trend, Italian food marketers have been consciously positioning the health and nutritional benefits of their products.
Taste of Americana
SLEEK, flashy and gleaming, the diner is a classic icon of Americana, an oasis of comfort, with its beckoning neon signs: "Open 24 Hours", "Hot Food" and "Today's Specials". In an age of faceless architecture and assembly line food, there has been a rebirth of interest in the diner as an art form, as well as a design and eating experience. Diners' personalities are as varied as the people with whom you share a booth or sit next to on a swivel stool. Some still serve the same home-cooked fare they did when they were first built, while others now serve gourmet cuisine and fine wines. An authentic diner can be defined in a number of ways. Firstly, it must be factory made - a ruling that excludes store-front diners and focuses on stand alone, prefabricated structures, the kind that were manufactured (mostly in New Jersey) in the style of railway dining cars.
The list of auction items at Ye Greate Street Live
GREENWICH TWP. -- The chance to bid on some really extraordinary items, at both live and silent auctions, topped by home-grown entertainment, for an admission price of only $10 per family, is being offered at Ye Greate Street Live on Saturday. That's per family, not per person. The event is sponsored by the Greenwich Education Foundation and is held each year at Morris Goodwin School, which benefits from proceeds. Go early, at 5:30 p.m., to browse among the auction items on display until 6:30 p.m., then stay for the auction and entertainment, this year with a theme of "Robin Hood and His Merry Men." Some items may be viewed until Friday in the windows of Brenner's Brew, 21 E. Commerce St., Bridgeton, and the Greenwich Post Office/Country Store, 1016 Ye Greate St., Greenwich.
UK Catering Trade Is Missing Out On Vegetarian & Vegan Health Food ...
Research showing Increase in SHEF's (Stay at Home Entertain Friends) proves UK chefs are still loosing market share to Supermarket as retailers' strategies to provide gourmet composite parts for fine dining dinner parties and ready made meals give consumers exactly what they want. London, UK April 2, 2007 -- Caterers, foodservice bosses and restaurateurs are still failing to seize opportunities and exploit the rising consumer trends and interest in ethically produced health foods say London nutrition and food consultants Foods for Life. Consultant and author of 'Vegan' Tony Bishop-Weston is urging the catering industry to attend a ethical living festival in Bristol to discover what's happening at grass roots and get a taste of where the ethical health food market is heading.
A Struggle With Fires
'Most of them were on the mountainside but the huge problems you have then, especially in the dark, is safety because of the potholes, nooks and crannies. Some fires were left to burn themselves out because it was too dangerous for us to remain.' The flames that ripped through a disused tyre storage area in Llandow last night engulfed the area in plumes of black smoke. More than 140 firefighters spent the night and into the early hours of today tackling the fierce blaze at an industrial estate near Cowbridge. At one point, 15 crews were brought in to help put out a 'substantial' amount of burning tyres and several single-storey industrial units. No-one was injured in the blaze and police and eight fire officers were today trying to find out how the it started.
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