Specialty Food Sales Surge in US
July 21, 2011Visitors to the Fancy Food Show in Washington
Despite the country's economic downturn, the sale of specialty foods and beverages in the United States is booming, with more Americans buying gourmet foods
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Many Americans are hungry for specialty foods.
"This is a classical Mauritanian dish with shrimp. We serve it with a little bit of a seafood curry with black-eyed peas and a little bit of calamari," said one South African chef.
"I like the sauce a lot. I have to try the chicken. It's good," said one woman who tried it.
With 180,000 products on display at this Fancy Food Show, there's no shortage of scrumptious morsels to taste.
The trade show earlier this month in Washington, D.C., is the largest in North America and attracted manufacturers from 81 countries. Allyson Myers sells handmade gourmet chocolates.
"It's a real cost effective way to reach out to customers and also to have our product here, to be able to feel and touch and taste it. Again. I cannot travel with 300 products to their location, but they can come to our world," said Myers.
Americans spent $70 billion on gourmet items last year. Louise Kramer is a spokeswoman for the National Association for the Specialty Food Trade.
"People may not have been buying BMWs [automobiles], but they were buying wonderful dark chocolate bars to treat themselves. Also, people have stopped dining out as much, but as Americans have gotten more sophisticated and adventurous with their dining, they now want better products at home," said Kramer.
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