The Chinese diet is changing dramatically. “New era, new venues, and new products” is the current motto of China’s food and beverage industry. In 2018, the revenue in the food and beverage industry amounts to $18 billion U.S. dollars, which is expected to show an annual growth rate of 16.4 [...]
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TIME HAS COME FOR CHINA’S CHEESE CONSUMPTION UPGRADE
As an imported product, cheese has entered the Chinese market for more than 20 years. But it’s not until recently that the special flavored food was accepted by most of the consumers. On one hand, thanks to development of oversea education, international business and travel, more and more Chinese have [...]
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Italy invented coffee culture. Now it’s a coffee time capsule
TREVISO, Italy — The coffee shop would have been at home in so many other countries. But it certainly didn’t seem Italian. The first oddity was the menu, which included cold brews and pour-overs that are commonplace in Washington, D.C., or Tokyo — but almost impossible to find in Italy. The [...]
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Pairing Italian Food And Wine – Advice From Rachael Lowe
The world of Italian wine is a complex one for many consumers. While pairing Italian wine and food offers great pleasure, knowing what wine to pair with what food is still a mystery to many. I recently sat down with Rachael Lowe, wine director at Spiaggia and Café Spiaggia in [...]
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How to Pair Beer with Italian Food, According to Italians
Pizza and beer. Beer and pizza. They’re the peanut butter and jelly of Italian-American food. But beer and pasta? Beer and a nice rare Fiorentina steak? Beer in place of that ubiquitous aperitivo glass of prosecco? It’s unthinkable. It’s blasphemous. Except, of course, that it’s not. Birra artiginale (that’s Italian [...]
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