The Tastemakers (47 page)

Facts on the specialty food industry come from the Specialty Food Association.

Elizabeth Weise, “Coconuts, Beer? Six Food Trends for 2013,”
USA Today
, January 22, 2013,
www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/01/22/food-trends-2013/1855189/
.

“What We're Reading,”
NYTimes.com
Diner's Journal Blog, January 22, 2013,
http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/22/what-were-reading-612/?_r=0
.

The Food Mirror Game can be found and entered at
thefoodmirror.com
.

McCormick Flavor Forecast can be found at
flavorforecast.com
.

Barb Stuckey,
Taste: Surprising Stories and Science About Why Food Tastes Good
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 2012).

Josh Schonwald,
The Taste of Tomorrow: Dispatches from the Future of Food
(New York: Harper, 2012).

Sarah Elton, “When A Is for Apple and H Is for Hype,”
Globe and Mail
March 9, 2010.

Jordan Timm, “Farming: How Do You Like Them Apples,”
Canadian Business
, April 7, 2011.

Jennifer Bain, “Meet Ontario's Newest Apple,”
Toronto Star
, February 16, 2010.

G. Bruce Knecht,
Hooked: Pirates, Poaching, and the Perfect Fish
(Emmaus, PA: Rodale, 2006).

Florence Fabricant, “Chilean Sea Bass: More Than an Identity Problem,”
New York Times
, May 29, 2002.

“Restaurants Remove Toothfish from Menus,”
USA Today
, February 19, 2002.

Miriam Jordan and Lauren A. E. Schuker, “The Onion's Best Friend Is an Ogre,”
Wall Street Journal
, June 28, 2010.

Immigration statistics: the Migration Policy Institute, the 2008 American Community Survey, and the US Citizenship and Immigration Service's Office of Immigration Statistics (OIS).

Industry statistics: NPD Group, Mintel, Nation's Restaurant News, and Private Label Manufacturing Association.

Helen Bullitt Lowry, “The Old World in New York,”
New York Times
, April 3, 1921.

Krishnendu Ray, “Exotic Restaurants and Expatriate Home Cooking: Indian Food in Manhattan,” in
The Globalization of Food
, eds. David Inglis and Debra Gimlin (Oxford: Berg, 2009).

_______, “Traveling Tastes: Authority, Authenticity, and Publics for Indian Cooking in Manhattan,”
www.soas.ac.uk/migrationdiaspora/seminarsevents/food_migration_abstracts/file49147.pdf
.

_______, “Dreams of Pakistani Grill and Vada Pao in Manhattan: Reinscribing the Immigrant Body in Metropolitan Discussions of Taste,”
Food, Culture, and Society
14, no. 2 (June 2011): 243–273.

_______, “A Taste for Ethnic Difference: American Gustatory Imagination in a Globalizing World,” in
Globalization, Food and Social Identities in the Asia Pacific Region
, ed. James Farrer (Tokyo: Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture, 2010).

Peter van der Veer, ed.,
Nation and Migration: The Politics of Space in the South Asian Diaspora
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995).

Lizzie Collingham,
Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).

Thomas Rogers, “Can Indian Food Conquer America?”
Salon
, January 10, 2011.

Laresh Jayasanker, “Indian Restaurants in San Francisco and America: A Case Study in Translating Diversity, 1965–2005,”
Food and History
5, no. 2 (May 2009): 219–244.

Jane Nickerson, “Spicy Cookbook Sheds Light on Indian Dishes”
New York Times
, October 11, 1956.

Craig Claiborne, “Indian Actress Is a Star in the Kitchen, Too,”
New York Times
, July 7, 1966.

Adam Davidson, “The Food-Truck Business Stinks,”
New York Times Magazine
, May 7, 2013.

Baylen J. Linnekin, Jeffrey Dermer, and Matthew Geller, “The New Food Truck Advocacy: Social Media, Mobile Food Vending Associations, Truck Lots, and Litigation in California and Beyond,”
Keepfoodlegal.org
, 2011,
http://www.keepfoodlegal.org/PDFs/linnekindermergeller.pdf
.

Baylen Linnekin, “Chicago's Disgusting New Food Truck Regulations,”
Reason.com
, July 28, 2012.

David Weber,
The Food Truck Handbook: Start, Grow, and Succeed in the Mobile Food Business
(Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2012).

Additional city food truck facts and figures: the Institute for Justice and
Mobile Food News
.

Quotes from the DC City Council hearing on vending regulations: video archives of the testimony, PR 20–125, May 10, 2013.

Jessica Sidman, “Mobilizing: How D.C.'s Food Trucks Learned to Love Lobbying,”
Washington City Paper
, November 14, 2012.

Eric P. Newcomer, “D.C. Food Trucks, Restaurants Look Forward to New Regulations,”
Washington Examiner
, February 25, 2013.

Tim Carman, “Public Is Hungry for Better Vending Regulations for Food Trucks,”
Washington Post
, April 10, 2013.

Monica Davey, “Trade in Pork Bellies Comes to an End, but the Lore Lives,”
New York Times
, July 30, 2011.

“Iconic Chicago Pork-Belly Trading Pit, Remembered in ‘Trading Spaces,' to Close”
Fox News
, August 29, 2007.

Andrew Clark, “Rising Pork Bellies Prices Hit All Time High,”
The Guardian
, August 2010.

“Pork Belly Price Rise Persists,”
National Hog Farmer
, August 6, 2010.

Steve Meyer, “Hog Prices Just an Anomaly?”
National Hog Farmer
, May 2, 2008.

R. W. Mandigo, “A New Look at Belly and Bacon Values,”
National Hog Farmer
, April 15, 2002.

Mark Rahner, “It's Mayo, It's Bacon, It's Baconnaise—and Sales Are Sizzling,”
Seattle Times
, April 28, 2009.

Bacon consumer sales statistics: Technomic's February 2013
Food Flash: Bacon Bits
.

Heather Lauer,
Bacon: A Love Story: A Salty Survey of Everybody's Favorite Meat
(New York: HarperCollins, 2009).

Anita Prichard,
Fondue Magic: Fun, Flame and Saucery Around the World
(New York: Hearthside Press, 1969).

Sylvia Lovegreen,
Fashionable Food: Seven Decades of Food Fads
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995).

Vincent Varrilli,
The Fondue Rule Book
, self-published, date unknown.

Helen Evans Brown,
Chafing Dish Book
(Los Angeles, The Ward Ritchie Press, 1950).

Dietmar P. Schlüter,
Chalet Suisse: Fondues
, Veal, self-published, date unknown.

Mimi Sheraton, “Delicious, Solid, Countrified Swiss: Chalet Suisse,”
New York Times
, December 19, 1980.

Catherine Phipps, “A Fondness for Fondue,” The Guardian blog, March 24, 2010.

Dena Kleiman, “Fondue, Refreshed, Re-emerges,”
New York Times
, March 7, 1990.

Lisa McLaughlin, “Restaurant Trends: Fondue: Now It's Hip to Dip,”
Time
, February 10, 2003.

Melissa Clark, “A Little Nostalgia, a Long Fork and Lots of Cheese,”
New York Times
, January 23, 2008.

Diane Duane and Peter Morwood, “Switzerland: Chocolate Fondue: Its True History and the Basic Recipe,”
europeancuisines.com
.

Vintage Toblerone promotional materials: Mondelez.

Hugh Merwin, “Introducing the Cronut, a Doughnut-Croissant Hybrid That May Very Well Change Your Life,”
grubstreet.com
, May 9, 2013.

Hilary Dixler, “Q&A: Dominique Ansel on Cronut Mania and Imposters,”
eater.com
, May 30, 2013.

Bianca Prum, “The World's First Interactive Cronut- (and Cronut Impostor-) Finding Map,”
thrillist.com
, August 11, 2013.

Jeanette Settembre, “Cronut Mania Hits South Korea via Dunkin Donuts,”
New York Daily News
, July 30, 2013.

Jen Carlson, “Here Are Two Young Women Digging for Cronuts in the Trash,”
Gothamist.com
, August 13, 2013,
http://gothamist.com/2013/08/13/spotted_two_young_women_digging_for.php
.

“Contaminated Cronut Burger Cause of 150 Illnesses at CNE,” CBC News, August 23, 2013.

Melinda Maldonado, “Cronut Burger: Poor Refrigeration of Jam Likely Cause of CNE Food Poisoning,”
Toronto Star
, September 5, 2013.

Karon Liu, “Double Bake,”
The Grid
, June 20, 2013,
www.thegridto.com/life/food-drink/double-bake/
.

D
avid Sax
is a freelance writer specializing in business and food. His writing appears regularly in the
New York Times
,
Bloomberg Businessweek
,
Saveur
,
The Grid Toronto
, and other publications. He is the author of
Save the Deli: In Search of Perfect Pastrami, Crusty Rye, and the Heart of Jewish Delicatessen
and has won a James Beard Award for writing and literature. He lives in Toronto, Canada.