The team from Icelandic Seafood serves up its featured dishes, which included sautéed scallops in a white wine and butter sauce. (Photo: Scott Windus Photography)
Chef Josh MacDonald of Cavendish Farms (Photo: Scott Windus Photography)
Diana Duddy of Sweet Street shares one of the company’s confections with Everett Phillips of Iowa State University. (Photo: Scott Windus Photography)
Jim Davis of Lyons Magnus serves up raspberry mojitos to Judiann Woo and Carol Kentis, both of iSi. (Photo: Scott Windus Photography)
Mark Crawford of Boston Restaurant Associates at the Phillips Gourmet table (Photo: Scott Windus Photography)
Ruben Ramirez of Mimi’s Cafe, Nancy Kruse of The Kruse
Co. and Lowell Petrie of Real Mex Restaurants (Photo: Scott Windus Photography)
John Malloy of Ventura Foods shares best practices
with attendees at an interactive discussion during the show. (Photo: Scott Windus Photography)
David Groll of McAlister’s Deli discusses menu development during a roundtable discussion at Menu Trends & Directions 2010.
Al Copeland Jr. of Al Copeland Investments, Cammie Spillyards of OSI Restaurant Partners and Kimberly Bean of Outback Steakhouse (Photo: Scott Windus Photography)
Culinary and marketing experts from top restaurant chains mingled and sampled new products during a networking reception that closed out the first day of the recent Menu Trends & Directions conference.
The event, held at the Gaylord Palms in Orlando, Fla., brought together more than 75 professionals, who shared strategies over cocktails and food from the events’ sponsors.
Dishes included poutine-style kettle crisps, an Asian barbecued- pork sandwich with cilantro slaw, a seasonal pumpkincranberry stack, shrimp with coconut-curry dip, and applewood-smoked bacon and spicy shrimp crostini with fruit salsa.
Premier sponsors of the Menu Trends & Directions event were Bush’s Best, Cavendish Farms, Icelandic USA, Lyons Magnus, Sweet Street Desserts and Ventura Foods LLC. Barilla America Inc., the California Milk Advisory Board, CSM Bakery Products, iSi North America Inc., Phillips Gourmet Inc., Sugardale Food Service and Whole Earth Sweetener Co. were supporting sponsors.
