Patricia Cobe

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Recipe report: Comfort foods connect customers to home

Satisfying dishes such as fried chicken, burgers, mac and cheese and down-home desserts continue to be customer favorites. 

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Recipe report: Healthy dishes are in demand

Creating craveable, healthy dishes is a challenge, but these recipes strike the right balance.

Vegetable scraps and imperfect produce are getting creative menu treatments rather than being tossed into the trash.

Global flavors are driving menu development in all noncommercial segments.

As menu planning accelerates into the second half of 2016, it’s a good time to look ahead at cuisines and ingredients coming down the pike, including these trends.

With the goal of making 10 of N.C. State’s best-sellers 10% healthier, including this tomato bisque, Lisa Eberhart teamed up dietary interns with campus chefs.

Go beyond the usual chocolate and vanilla cones by offering up some unique new ice cream recipes.

Summer calls for portable foods, as customers take advantage of every opportunity to eat outdoors.

In the last two years, snacking has increased 7% and consumers are demanding more inventive snacks. These recipes meet that demand.

Catering racked up $52.3 billion in 2015, and 64% of off-premise dollars were spent at restaurants, according to Technomic’s Catering Insights Report. Here's how to get a bigger chunk of those catering dollars.

Hotter weather and an abundance of seasonal produce call for salads on the menu. 

Veggies took center stage at the Chef Culinary Conference held at the University of Massachusetts last week. In demos and hands-on kitchen workshops, chefs and culinary instructors proved that plant-forward recipes are flavor forward, too.

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