TheChocolateLife::LIVE – Innovation Part 2: 2022 Summer Fancy Food Show Roundup
Channel: Pod Save Chocolate
Date: 2022-06-14

There have been over 40 Summer (New York) and Winter (San Francisco/Las Vegas) Fancy Food Shows since I started publishing chocophile.com back in May, 2001.. I have probably attended close to 75% of them. This gave me a perspective on innovation and trends in specialty foods – including chocolate – here in the US that tempers all of the other research I do. 

Importantly, it gives me the opportunity to taste, and to see the reactions of other people to what they are tasting. Snippets of conversations are overheard, you can see excitement in places on the show floor, and colleagues share what they have seen that excites them, and I can reciprocate.

For this live stream I will have attended two press tasting dinners, a pitch slam, several in-stand tastings and interviews, and have spent about a dozen hours scouting and scouring the Fancy Food Show for innovations in chocolate and searching for flavor trends that have the potential to cross over into chocolate.

While it is show policy not to let people leave with samples, as a member of the press I am given latitude to do so. So ... in this live stream I will share my impressions and live taste what I chose to pack and carry, sometimes for hours. And, of course, I will share links to the companies who make the products I talk about.