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Foodies in NYC rejoiced when the NYC Summer Fancy Foods show kicked off this year in sweltering heat at the Jacob Javits Center in late June. A variety of trends surfaced including alternative sweeteners like honey and maple syrup (think maple syrup bacon); the rise in alternative protein and plant based products; gut health; waste reduction; especially in foodservice, international flavors in spices and finished goods; flavored waters and unique non-alcoholic beverages including maple water, and wine water; cold brewed coffees; nut and seed based items; activated charcoal; snacks with health benefits; adventurous and artisan ice cream trends, including dairy free and unique flavors; dry or dehydrated items including fruit, and veggie chips; gluten free everything; and of course making everything Instagram worthy.

Some products worth noting from the show:

Waste reduction:

Misfits juices: contain 70% fruits and vegetables which farmers cannot sell or leftover scraps that would go to waste. Apparently 20 billion pounds of fruits and veggies go unharvested/unsold in the US every year!

Ice cream meets international flavors:

Malai: the name Malai, which comes from Northern India means “cream of the crop”. This ice cream company draws inspiration from globally sourced whole ingredients, aromatic spices, and unexpected twists on old classics. Malai ice cream has a pop up spot at 268 Smith St. in Brooklyn. Yum!

Plant based:

Green sliced foods: this delicious, new, Vermont based company produces soy-free, organic, meat and cheese alternatives. Products include veggie dogs, veggie deli slices, and vegan cheeses.

Gut Health:

Oregon Kombucha: people love kombucha that’s for sure! Oregon created a line of craft your own kombucha kits that comes in 6 different flavors. The company sources organic teas, grows and ferments heirloom SCOBY in their dedicated factory in Portland.

Unique non-alcoholic beverages:

O.Vine: made from pure spring water the containing the nature ingredients of wine, including its antioxidants without alcohol. O.Vine gourmet wine water is available in still, or bubbly and is based on red or white varietals.

Other foodie trends rounding out the summer include:

Modern Izakaya: Izakaya spots are blowing up these days! Iza what? (I had to do a bit of Googling myself on this one). Izakaya is an informal Japanese bar that serves small plates to accompany drinks. They are usually casual places for after work drinking. The word means “I” (to stay) and “sakaya” (sake shop), indicating that izakaya originated from sake shops that allowed patrons to sit on the premise and drink. The trend started in Australia and Asia and has since been brought to the USA. I suggest you give it a go! Here are a few places to get you started.

New York City:

Izakaya NoMad: a casual, funky spot, and in traditional Japanese fashion, cartoon paintings, bright colors, strong smells and general sensory overload. This restaurant boasts crowd pleasers such as pork belly, mochi wrapped in bacon, grilled avocados, and tako (octopus). Patrons rave that the service is fast, friendly, and consistent.

Bar Goto: known for the outstanding cocktails, some call this the closest thing New York has seen to a Japanese style cocktail bar. It has been written up by just about every publication from The New York Times to Vogue to The New Yorker, TimeOut and everything in between. Crowd pleasers include the miso wings, the woody burdock-root fries, and the rum oshiruko soup – a warm, earth and sweet bean soup.

Sakagura: hidden in the basement of a nondescript office tower, this unique Izakaya restaurant is known to be very ‘transportive’ and patrons claim that you feel as if you stepped foot in Tokyo. From the creative décor, including paper lanterns, unique flower arrangements and folk art, sake barrels repurposed as washroom stalls, a huge selection of sake, and authentic food, this place is well worth a stop.

San Francisco:

Izakaya Social: this is one of San Francisco’s original Izakaya establishments. They specialize in yakitori chicken skewers, fried tofu, oysters, and chicken wings. Be prepared to wait as there is often a 40-60-minute wait for a table at this intimate restaurant equipped with an open kitchen.

Los Angeles:

Izakaya Fu-ga: located in Little Tokyo, this downstairs underground restaurant features an excellent alcoholic menu, including a nice selection of Japanese beers and whiskeys, and a great small plate menu. Some menu features include the rib eye steak, the chicken karaage, the sesame crusted salmon, and the garlic French fries.

Picnics taking on a whole new meaning: ever watch an old black and white movie and think how adorable it was when a couple packed a little picnic basket and then trekked it to this glorious park and spent hours laughing over bite sized sandwiches and talking about their wonderful life plans? Then, in an attempt to recreate this romantic picnic situation, you spending hours trying to find the perfect picnic basket on Amazon, debate where to buy sandwiches for days, then find yourself lugging 20lbs of stuff to the nearest park? Well, UPicnic has a solution to this! They’ve created a website where you can buy food and drinks, rent games, and sports gear and then deliver everything to you! Wahoo!

Posh Picnics: for current guests of the Mark Hotel on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the hotel offers a lunch to go created by famed chef Jean-Georges which they can carry or take via the hotel’s custom bikes. In addition to some delightful food options such as steamed shrimp salad, the basket contains all picnic essentials including a blanket, and cutlery, along with an illustrated bike map by the chef concierge.

Cans of booze for your next summertime sipping (picnics or not):

Canned rose: Refinery 29 does an excellent article on this summer’s best canned roses. Here. Some of their favorites include: Nomadica, Una Lou’s, and Underwood rose.

Boozy seltzers: You would have to live in an underground cave not to notice the huge spike in alcoholic seltzers this summer. They’re everywhere! Some of the most ubiquitous seltzers of the summer include: Spiked Seltzer, White Claw, Truly Spiked & Sparkling, and Smirnoff Spiked Sparkling Seltzer. I found that White Claw has the tastiest product. What are your thoughts?

Impossible burger is blowing up:

Air New Zealand: Vegan burger with your Sauvignon Blac? Yes, please. Air New Zealand and Impossible Burger have teamed up and the burger is now available on select flights from Los Angeles to Auckland.

Umami Burger: back in July Umami Burger announced it will now be the exclusive plant-based burger served at all of its 22 locations nationwide. Since May 2017, the Impossible Burger has become one of the most popular items on Umami Burger’s menu. This news follows the announcement that Impossible Burger made back in April, stating that 140 White Castle locations throughout New York, New Jersey, and Chicago would be serving Impossible Sliders at $1.99.

Instagram museums are taking over:

Rosé Mansion (NYC): if you live anywhere near NYC, it’s nearly impossible to miss the massive number of pictures that women have posted at the Rose Mansion at 445 5th Avenue, NYC. The Rose Mansion has completely taken over all forms of social media! In case you are unfamiliar (not sure this is possible), the mansion is open from July until early October and features the very first 14 room, two story rose-tasting experience in NYC. Instagram worthy pictures include a pool filled with roses, a bar filled with hot pink sand, and giant chandelier and rosé, duh.

Candytopia (NYC and San Fran): Willy Wonky in real life (without the disappearance of children and sorry, y’all but I did not see any ‘small people’ during my visit). Candytopia opened in mid-August and will stay open for the remainder of the year, so don’t tell you dentist, but if you’re feeling a sugar rush coming on, this is your place! The pop-up museum is basically seven or so rooms with almost everything made of candy and a pseudo marshmallow pit at the end. It’s a place for millennials to eat so much sugar they want to throw up and take more pictures than their phones can even handle!

Pizza Museum (NYC) (opening in October): according to Eater.com, for $35 pizza lovers can go on an “experimental pizza adventure”, which is really just an excuse for a bunch of photos to post on Instagram. Eater.com states that there will be “pizza-inspired immersive rooms”, a “cheese cave”, a “pizza art gallery” and a “pizza beach”. Not going to lie, I may be one of the first people to sign up to buy tickets to this one. Judge me all you want!

August 2018 Food Trends Foodies in NYC rejoiced when the NYC Summer Fancy Foods show kicked off this year in sweltering heat at the Jacob Javits Center in late June.

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caredogstips · 7 years

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Top 10 pas in envision books

Dads often get a raw deal in image volumes – often absent or else caricatured as the not-very-smart or the fix-it-all-with-my-toolbox papa. Here Sean Taylor picks the best well-rounded daddies in a selection of fabulous image volumes for papas day

You get more mums than dads in visualize journals. Perhaps thats intelligible. Mums still tower largest in the living conditions of numerous picture-book-aged juveniles. But perhaps it shows our world, in which absent-minded father-gods are ever more common. One route or the other, it would be good to have more papas present in the lives of children, and it would be good to have more papas in word-painting journals.

Sean Taylor with his son Rafa.

And theres something else. The pas who do appear in stories for young children can be quite restricted references. Theres the above-it-all daddy, speaking the newspaper. Theres the not-very-smart father, whos simply a pun. Theres the fix-it , daddy with his toolbox. Theres the about-to-be-absentdad , off to employment. Even the all-loving , Guess-How-Much-I-Love-You kind of dad can feel one-dimensional.

So for my top 10, Ive chosen works peculiarity father-gods who are both at the center of the tale and more alive than the caricatures. The notebooks are ordered approximately by age of reader: younger firstly, older last-place. I hope theres something new for you to find and enjoy.

1. Some Dogs Do by Jez Alborough

A special tale told( as Jez Alborough brilliantly does) in few words and with verses that read just right. A young hound announced Sid is so filled with happiness that he moves! But he cant persuade anyone that this has happened. Hes tittered at. bird-dogs dont fly it cant be done, says his teach. Dogs dont fly! reproduce his friends. This leaves Sid alone and lamentable. But his father comes by. He asks whats wrong, and it saves the day. Sids dad believes in him. He understands Sids free spirit because he shares it. And these two things( literally) lift Sid up again. Its a wonderful image of the magical a father-son alliance can do.

2. The Parent Who Had 10 Children by Bndicte Guettier

A whimsical fable, first are presented in France. The papa in question does everything for his 10 brats. He takes them to institution. He cooks their snacks. He tells them storeys. He caresses them good night. Then, requiring a crack, he constructs a secret ship. He says hell leave the children with their grandma, and sail away for a long vacation. But he cant live without his minors. Hes back soon. The ten babes connect him in the ship. Its an engaging depiction of what it is to have( or be) a affectionate mother. The ludicrous realism outline you in like a nursery rhyme. Precisely right for younger painting volume readers.

3. Petes a Pizza by William Steig

Its raining. Pete cant go out to play ball with the guys. So hes in a bad humor. His father thinks it might clap Pete up to be made into a pizza. Hes right, of course! Dad kneads him and twirls him up in the air. He disperses on cheese( actually torn up fragments of paper) and applies him in the oven( actually the sofa ). This is a celebration of the parents ruse of distracting a grouchy brat with a little bit of zany comedy.( Good maneuver in the book, as far as Im concerned .) And what a wonderfully affection, inventive, energetic father William Steig has created! Pete titters like crazy. And the sunshine comes out at the end.

4. Oscars Half Birthday by Bob Graham

One of many memorable situation volumes from a master of creating papa, mums, children and all human being.( Too fairies, in fact .) A household become strolling to a green slope in the city to celebrate newborn Oscars six-month birthday. Bob Graham covers “the worlds” as a jumble of various types of lives, done beautiful by the excitement that can come between them. And in this story, theres special attention paid to minutes of prayer that children and mothers can conjure up, if they require. I enjoy the dirty-old-town give, with its colourful graffiti. And I like the spiky-haired daddy. He realise the sandwiches. He goes on with the stuff of the family daytime. He does it with love. And hes concerned one of my favourite of all situation work completes. When the kids are asleep, he pushes back the furniture and dances with Mum

5. At the Crossroads by Rachel Isadora

A brilliant volume( who are able dare publish this today ?) by the author of the evenly brilliant Bens Trumpet. In a South African township, some infants expect their migrant-labourer parents to arrive home after 10 months “. They wait, in celebratory mood at first, but with increasing tiredness and uncertainty as the day and the night go by. They tell legends to stay awake. But a very young drops-off asleep. A truck plucks up. Its not their fathers. Then the working day sunups. And, with it, the parents arrive. Theres hardly any characterisation of the pas. They come to life through most children excitement and perseverance. So does the deep emotion of an absent-minded father returning. My boys have often choice this volume at bedtime. And they know it well enough to look up curiously when the papas arrive – to check if there are snaps of joy in my eyes. There typically are.

6. Were Off to Ogle For Aliens by Colin McNaughton

Colin McNaughton was once a prolific word-painting notebook manufacturer. His perky, colorful contact is much missed. I ever feel that there are conventional filaments in it – from pantomime, or music hall even. And you dont get those working in some cool, sharper contemporary drawing journals. Were Off to Appear For Aliens is a lovely yarn. The daddy is McNaughton, himself. The legend starts with his newly published book being delivered. He demo it to his family. And here, the second largest journal is glued into the first. The book-inside-the-book is a catchy verse anecdote about a room passage McNaughton once reached. After a cord of accidents, he fell in love with a exquisite alien girlfriend and she tripped back with him. Its another original dad: irrepressibly playful, eccentric and warm. And theres a amaze. The final spread uncovers McNaughtons wife and kids have big-hearted, overhead eyeballs and additional arms…so the whole story is genuine!

7. Dont Let Go by Jeanne Willis, is borne out by Tony Ross

A story about a father-daughter relationship told in tempo and verse. Megan wants to visit her daddy. But her father is too busy to take her. Megan recommends memorizing to go her bicycle so she knows how shape the expedition alone. Dad schools her. Hes patient and promoting. I wont “lets get going” ,/ Not until “theyre saying”. So Megan overcomes her anxieties. She announces out, Okay, you can let go now! Then shes off into the delight of a first bike go( illustrated by Tony Ross, with a magical style, as a passage past a tiger, into jungle .) Meanwhile Dad is left behind, knowing hes “lets get going” of his daughter in more ways than one. Prepare in the big-hearted, wide world of a windswept park. Lovely writing, as always, from Jeanne Willis. And another human-hearted pa, alive on the page.

8. Ted by Tony Di Terlizzi

This one is for older paint work readers. The narrator is a six- or seven-year-old boy who lives with his rather serious papa. Ted is a large, pink imaginary sidekick who shows up one day, talking about birthdays and raspberries. Antics follow, which get the narrator into deeper and deeper trouble with his father. They develop a barmy game called monopoly twister. Ted causes the boy a bad haircut. They paint the walls. Then they spate the house. Dad cant take it. NO MORE TED! Ever! he speaks. But theres a good twist. Ted tells the boy not to worry. He says he was once “his fathers” imaginary sidekick. They used to play infinite plagiarists. He even remembers where Dads atomic blaster doll is lay. When Dad visualizes his old plaything, remembrances wake up in him. The tale is about to change. And the three of them end up playing cavity pirates monopoly twister.

9. The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey by Susan Wojciechowski, illustrated by PJ Lynch

A longer narration, more for 5-8 year-olds. It is illustrated with great skill and thought, by PJ Lynch.( And its another one that produces tears to my sees most ages I read it !) Jonathan Toomey is a wood-carver who has moved to a village, far from where his wife and baby succumbed. So this is not a usual situation work pa. He is solitary and suffering. The widow McDowell and her son, Thomas, are newcomers to the hamlet. In their move, they have lost a treasured nativity defined. So they expect Jonathan Toomey if he will carve them a new one. The carpenter reluctantly concurs. His middle warms to both Thomas and Thomass mother. He carves a beautiful replacement nativity defined. In the realise, he faces his terrible loss. And the final, beautiful, image is of the three of them walking side by side on Christmas day with laughter in their eyes.

10. My Dads a Birdman by David Almond, is borne out by Polly Dunbar

Lizzies mum has died and her leader cant cope. In fact, hes decided hes a bird. He thinks that if he was able to make a good duo of backstages, hell fly across the River Tyne and triumph the Great Human Bird Competition. David Almonds eye for whats treasured in the human drama “were living in” stirs this a profoundly enjoyable storey. Its junior myth rather than a portrait notebook. But it does have wonderful artwork by one of best available scene book illustrators at work these days: Polly Dunbar. So Ill objective my list with this. Lizzies father is just the sort of rounded, hiring daddy Im pointing to. Hes wounded and inarticulate. But he brims with stuffs that they are able make a good leader: desire, fun, devotion, intensity. And the floor has a positive outcome, as he and Lizzie try the impossible.

Photograph: PR

Sean Taylor is the author of numerous notebooks for children of many different ages. He is also the father-god of two young sons. His new picture book, A Brave Bear( is borne out by Emily Hughes, is issued by Walker Books) is a fib of a father and a son on a red-hot day.