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Last month was hectic. Several key conferences and expos land in March, and they provide material to keep food and beverage industry editors busy all year.

Welcome to Prepared Foods’ annual retail food and beverage trends report. It’s an all-inclusive look at category dynamics and product development trends across as many as 12 product categories.

It’s been years since I’ve attended one of the Specialty Food Association’s annual Fancy Food shows. The last time I was on the show floor, it seemed attendees couldn’t get over the magic of a chocolate fountain. Truth be told, I still can’t. I find myself achieving a meditative state and staring at the smooth liquid skin of chocolate flowing from a tiny top ring to the big bottom one.

Happy New Year and welcome to 2015!

When I was a kid, I briefly raised mice as pets.

Remember when life was simple—when the most challenging puzzle involved paper, a colored pencil and picture requiring you to simply connect the dots.

Innovative thought does not have to conceive the absolute best approach for all time. It doesn’t have to leap from 1981 to 2014.

Maybe it’s because -- for 22 years -- I wrote exclusively about refrigerated and frozen foods.

A new year brings optimism, and optimism appears abundant as the food industry heads into 2014.

A couple of months ago, the courts ruled against the esteemed Mayor Bloomberg of New York in re: the ban against the sale of soft drinks larger than 16oz. This ignited some interesting debates within the nutrition communication industry (and don’t kid yourself—it is an industry).