Some Products to Try from the Fancy Food Show

By Sandy Hu
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Last week, I blogged about visiting the Winter Fancy Food Show at San Francisco’s Moscone Center. For three days, I walked the floor, tasting a variety of specialty foods and posting my food favorites on Instagram and Twitter (@specialforksndy).

A body can only try a limited number of disparate food items in a day. I started out each morning with breakfast at home so wouldn’t be tempted to overindulge at the show. And I kept my focus: Since Special Fork is primarily about quick dinner solutions, I concentrated on ingredient products that will make your cooking easier or better.

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A Taste of the Fancy Food Show

By Sandy Hu

With 206,000 square feet of exhibition space spanning the North and South Halls of San Francisco’s Moscone Center and 1,300 exhibitors, you need a plan to walk the Winter Fancy Food Show. If you don’t focus, it’s easy to overindulge, sampling sauces, pickles, cheeses, salumi, oils, vinegars, cookies, crackers, chocolates, frozen desserts, juices, teas, alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, chutneys, pickles, honeys…. Your stomach will not thank you for it.

Anything you would find in a specialty food store is here, multiplied many times over, available for tasting. So yesterday, walking the show, I looked for specialty foods I thought would help you make meals easier or more delicious. And I only sampled those things that qualified in my quest (except for the Hudson Valley Foie Gras and a few other indulgent foods too irresistible to pass up).

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