Articles by Wilbert Jones

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Flavor and Food Show and Tell: Seeking Sweets & Snacks Trends

Chef and cookbook author Wilbert Jones offers perspectives and insights on summer trade shows
Wilbert Jones
September 20, 2024

This summer’s Sweets & Snack Expo in Indianapolis drew more than 16,000 attendees and 1,000 exhibitors, from 25 countries. The trends I noticed involve lots of activity around texture—including freeze-dried candies and crunchy and chewy protein snacks. There also are intriguing new flavors in snacks and chips. 


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Food Flavor Show & Tell: What’s Old Gets Reinvented

Chef and cookbook author Wilbert Jones offers perspectives and insights on summer trade shows
Wilbert Jones
August 22, 2024

One of my biggest observations of The National Restaurant Show involves the reformulation or “remake” of many products made with familiar ingredients and flavors. Both shows reminded me of elements from my childhood, and particularly how my grandmother cooked. She worked as a cook 41 years for a first-generation family from Italy. 


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French Fries

Utah: A Culinary Mecca

Utah is becoming one of America’s prime eating destinations.
Wilbert Jones
June 23, 2014
Utah features restaurants and gourmet food markets offering their interpretation of new Native American cuisine, influenced by groups such as the Navajo.
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Greek Yogurt Cheesecake

A Taste of Ikaria, Greece

A small island in the Aegean Sea boasts one of the world’s largest concentration of centenarians, and research scientists all over the world who have studied the people of Ikaria believe their longevity results from a combination of lifestyle and diet.
Wilbert Jones
October 28, 2013
The Ikarian diet resembles the Mediterranean diet.
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Restaurant menu

Culinary Capstones

The Restaurant and Sweets & Snacks expos, as well as a number of recent announcements, give light to a range of culinary creativity.
Wilbert Jones
July 8, 2013
Culinary creations run the gamut from natural to healthy to allergen-free to a host of other trend-focused demands.
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Michelle and Wilbert

Thinking Healthy in 2012

Wilbert Jones
February 21, 2012
On October 25, 2011, the White House First Lady Michelle Obama traveled to her Chicago hometown to discuss the need for healthy foods in underprivileged communities. The event took place at a local redesigned Walgreens store on the city’s Southside, in an area known as a “desert community.”
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The First Lady and healthy eating expert and author Wilbert Jones discussed her Let's Move! Mission in October 25, 2011, in Chicago.

Thinking Healthy in 2012

Wilbert Jones
December 13, 2011
National grocery chains have come onboard Michelle Obama's plan to bring fresh fruits, vegetables and meats to communities that have had limited to no access to these important foods.
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