Kate Jackson, Contributing Editor

Kate Jackson has been a writer and editor on food, health and nutrition for more than 25 years. She was the founding editor of Today’s Dietitian and its consumer spin-off, Today’s Diet & Nutrition, for which she was the chief editor for the magazine’s seven-year run. Along with her photographer husband, the UCLA grad also published a popular magazine about motorcycle travel. She can be reached at katejac@ptd.net.

Food Truck Nation

Convenience meets connoisseurship as the creative endeavors of fanatic food enthusiasts meets mobile fast food.

Kate Jackson, Contributing Editor

January 23, 2014

Today’s food truck customers are as unfixed as the venues they avidly pursue.

Artisanal Baking: Keeping It Real

When bread or other baked goods are made by an artisan—created with only a few pure, high-quality ingredients; mixed and shaped by hand; and baked in a hearth oven—every last crumb has soul.

Kate Jackson, Contributing Editor

February 13, 2013

The artisanal baking trend of the past few years left many large baked goods companies wondering how to hurdle all the obstacles in creating mass-produced items that achieve artisan-style quality.

Switching from plastic to paper-based packaging often comes with new challenges. This webinar will explore how an ovenable, fiber-based packaging solution can deliver the benefits of plastic with 90% less plastic usage.

The Winter Fancy Food Show is where specialty food makers go to exhibit their newest and best products and where buyers go to find their next bestsellers.

Kate Jackson, Contributing Editor

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Food Truck Nation

Artisanal Baking: Keeping It Real

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