Fresh ideas inspired by a creative usage of grapes

Watch our 2019 Fruit Pairings tour video!

The many ways in which this on-trend workhorse is carrying modern menus

Some of the fried chicken styles making the biggest impact today

Handheld menu items drive traffic and increase sales

Barton Seaver dispels the myths of frozen seafood

How to craft small-batch housemade kombucha using The Perfect Purée’s premium fruit purées.

Incorporating distinctly Southeast Asian ingredients into sandwiches, soups and stir-fry dishes is a great way to introduce patrons to a new world of culinary adventure

Discover Australis Barramundi, "A Chef's Fish"

Watch our 2019 Fruit Pairings tour video!

Trend-forward uses of pork ensure that breakfast is good to go

Signature pork offerings help attract BBQ lovers

Why Chef Gus Martin loves cooking with beef, including flavor profiles and aging, as well as his favorite cuts.

Go with grapes and take your menu into bold new territory.

Answer the call for nutrient-rich dishes that power menus

Add richness of flavor and gorgeous color to sauces, glazes and more

Barton Seaver demonstrates how to use a king salmon from nose to tail for maximum profitabiility

What is it about BBQ that makes it so universally loved? Smithfield Culinary asked its select group of pitmasters to explain

10 dynamic, menu-ready builds and how to leverage them, brought to you by Minor's

Modern takes on traditional Turkish small plates

How Chef Gus Martin Creolizes beef with the use of seasoning blends, sauces and accompaniments that give beef authentic Creole flair

Blueberries paired with savory, acidic or herbaceous elements surprise and delight diners

Chef Keith Lord turns to potatoes to help carry ethnic flavors throughout a dish

The toppings showing remarkable growth on burger menus

Give guests a thrill with exciting global flavors

Monin is calling out Vanilla Spice as the “Flavor of the Year.”

Rickie Perez, Executive Chef/Founder of Logan Oyster Socials, a traveling oyster bar in Chicago, serves up a seafood pasta that is a perfect 10

We partner with Smithfield to look at today’s biggest menu opportunities that rely on pork for its popularity, familiarity, versatility and flavor

Leverage the potato’s popularity and get creative

How Custom Culinary® turns trends into reality with exciting new dishes that meet your operational needs, delight your customers and exceed your expectations.

Four opportunities for the sweet side of the menu

Surprising textural finishes offer big impact

Butterball Foodservice’s Pavo Saltado demonstrates a creative way to leverage an emerging flavor trend while keeping it familiar and approachable

Chef Martin speaks to the versatility of beef: how it goes beyond center of the plate and how different portion sizes drive business at lunch and dinner.

Chef DJ Tangalin utilizes fresh, frozen and dehydrated potatoes in order to develop an incredibly delicious gluten-free menu

Dinner theatre — by way of Dubai — is pure extravagance, and has a definite place in modern foodservice

Cauliflower rice serves up a world of menu possibilities.

Make salads signature with one of America's favorite fruits

A classic plant-forward dish from the Levant is paired with pasta for modern comfort.

This Gluten-Free Turkey Ramen taps into trending global flavors while staying in your guests’ comfort zone

Monin has introduced bright, clean-label vegetable purées that help deliver the veg-centric trend in drinks

Chef DJ Tangalin utilizes fresh, frozen and dehydrated potatoes in order to develop an incredibly delicious gluten-free menu

One of the easiest, most cost-effective ways to elevate a popular or familiar dish is with an on-trend condiment. Here are five of the mouth-watering varieties we expect will resonate with larger audiences over the coming year.

Blueberries offer a meaningful connection for healthy diners

Renowned restauranteur/chef Ray Garcia dishes on the appeal of Latin cuisine and demonstrates how to make his Yolkamole Egg Tostada

This Fettuccine Carbonara sees a luscious blend of cream, guanciale, Grana Padano cheese and rendered guanciale fat

Toppings and sauces made with DOLE® Chef-Ready Cuts and Chef-Ready Frozen Fruit Purées lend a premium touch to your menu.

Tap into trending global flavors while staying in your guests’ comfort zone

Three more ways to leverage the popularity of mac and cheese.

High-impact flavor techniques leveraging the power of blueberries

Potatoes anchor trends with all-important familiarity

Steak is premium, but the experience doesn’t have to be formal, as stand-up steak concept Ikinari Steak demonstrates

Steak in a Cup... yes, that’s right—steak is supremely portable and snackable in South Korea’s steak stalls

With consumers showing hummus so much love, there’s an opportunity for menu differentiation through creative play in flavor combinations—both in the hummus and atop. Jorge Cespedes brings you five creative ways to top plant-based purées, lending flavor, texture and menu differentiation.

For Spokane, Washington–based chef Adam Hegsted, beef means profits across his restaurant group

Vibrant color dinnerware options from Libbey® help your one-of-a-kind plating ideas take flight, creating new looks to complement your venue’s unique character. Serve up an experience that is funky, eclectic or adventurous – and always memorable.

Amid the real concern of rising prices in an ever-changing landscape of labor, transportation, food costs and tariffs, flavor should remain every restaurant operator’s top priority.

Garner Foods donated $20,000 to hunger charities during the Texas Pete® Kitchen Hero Cook-Off.

Bowl builds are a powerhouse on menus today, and play well in a number of dayparts. Here are three ways to bean up your bowls, using plant-based ingredients to carry big flavors, satisfy hunger and provide nutrient-rich foods.

Rob Corliss, culinary consultant, translates five sustaining trends that will continue to influence dining behavior, and that require thoughtful attention when it comes to modern menu strategy.

Jorge Cespedes is consulting corporate chef for Bush’s Beans. He suggests cutting edge ways to serve beans for breakfast, has delicious ideas for seasonings for crispy garbanzo beans, and challenges chefs to see how far hummus can go.

Haliburton provides a pathway into plant-forward success through the use of scratch-made sauces.

CMAB recently unveiled a new campaign spotlighting “REAL Makers”—innovative chefs from throughout the country using California dairy in an interesting way.

How Haliburton creates create classic-technique reduction sauces ready to use.

A select group of chefs with ethnic expertise discuss BBQ

Hispanic-style cheeses from California tap into the continuing popularity of Latin cuisine on menus today. Chefs are showcasing creativity by leveraging Hispanic ingredients in craveable, delicious dishes.

Fresh purées can wow even the most discerning palates. Fruit purées, zests and blends help chefs add precisely the right flavor to a curried ginger peach sauce, instantly transforming Moroccan chicken brochettes into a menu best-seller.

Chef Jamie, Executive Chef at The Culinary Vegetable Institute at The Chef’s Garden, brings new life to fresh potatoes with these eye catching, scrumptious dishes

Five trends Katie Sutton is watching at the National Restaurant Association conference in 2018

Potatoes help the chef tap into the veg-centric/plant-forward trend while still giving diners what they want—satisfaction, satiety and craveability

U.S. Cheesemakers dominated the World Championship Cheese Contest in Madison in 2018, and BelGioioso Cheese was awarded eight prestigious medals out of a total of 3,402 entries from 26 different nations

Watch Chef Daniel Asher of River & Woods craft an innovative twist on the classic caprese sandwich.

Five trends Kim Haasarud is watching to help you up your cocktail development, delivery, marketing and creativity game

Watch Chef Jason McLeod of Born & Raised, San Diego, CA create fresh and modern spins on classic steakhouse dishes with fresh Avocados From Mexico

Five trends Dave Woolley - Chef of Fun Things to Cook, CD Culinary Approach - is watching in 2018

Charlie Baggs's talks about his NRA 2018 Show roadmap and what trends he foresees for 2018

Chef Dan Kish of Food Fixe gives new life to dehydrated potatoes, which showcases his innovative use of dehy slices in a creative take on Tortilla Española, and dehy flakes as a delicious and gluten-free alternative breading for Chicken Milanese.

Chobani® Greek Yogurt gives baked goods a boost, especially this pillowy soft charred Indian flatbread

Kathy Casey's top five trends and concepts on the front burner of the foodservice industry in 2018.

Rob Corliss, culinary consultant, translates five sustaining trends that will continue to influence dining behavior, and that require thoughtful attention when it comes to modern menu strategy.

Greek yogurt offers a pleasing balance between acidity and richness to desserts. Use it in Greek Yogurt Icing, Frozen Greek Yogurt and Almond Panna Cotta.

Flavor Partners Showcase - how Bush's Beans' products and recipes help customers take full advantage of the vegetable-forward menu trend

Quinn Adkins introduces this go-to trifecta of cornmeal, blackberries, and Texas Pete® Honey Mustard Sauce

Avocados From Mexico opens new state-of-the-art Culinary Center which will serve to further education and culinary innovation.

Beverage specialists at Monin have tapped into two major trends that hold big opportunity in the incredibly dynamic universe of modern cocktails

In his Umami Tuna Poke, Chad Lance finds that balance by replacing soy sauce with Monin® Umami Concentrated Flavor

Leverage the power of Chobani® Greek Yogurt in a multitude of sauce applications

Enrich and embolden your seasonal soups and salad dressings with Chobani

Matthia Accurso's go-to flavor trifecta: Texas Pete Hot Sauce, Gruyère and fresh apple

Flavor Partners Showcase - Idahoan Potatoes offers shareable finger food recipes using Idahoan® Tater Tumbler Appetizer Mix

Stephanie Tyson's trifecta of milk chocolate, bourbon and CHA! by Texas Pete® Sriracha Sauce is unexpected, but certainly inviting

Over 150 million sweetener packets are consumed every day. ecoSticks makes sweeteners and their packets more socially conscious, with a 50% reduction in filler and packaging.

Mango savory toast, mango chimichurri bacon burger and mango michelada. Maximize flavor excitement and minimize labor with chef-ready frozen purées.

Hummus is having a moment. Nestlé Minor's brings you nine ways to signaturize this craveable, wholesome Middle Eastern dip.

Saputo Cheese USA Inc. (“Saputo”) is pleased to introduce Great Midwest® Ghost Pepper CheddarCheese.

Ham is happening. Watch UNCUT Making the Cut to see Chef Cosmo Goss of The Publican in Chicago showcase the delicious “umami bomb”. With the National Pork Board.