Month: November 2011

Our idea behind the IDEATION FRESH Foodservice Forum was to assemble an intimate group of industry players who would think hard about how to turn a government concept into a reality. After all, the world won’t change its eating habits on demand, the industry will have to make that happen. Fortunately we have a dynamic lady ready to instruct, inspire and encourage the effort to make the dream of increased produce consumption a reality — and to help us create a future that is not only healthy, but delicious as well. We asked Pundit Investigator and Special Projects Editor Mira Slott to get a sense of what the effort in New York will actually be like from Amy Myrdal Miller, MS, RD, Director of Programs and Culinary Nutrition Strategic Initiatives at The Culinary Institute of America at Greystone. …

You can’t really think about international trade without thinking about transport, and there was only one man we thought could combine an understanding of what is happening with transportation and logistics with an understanding of what might this might mean for the world of produce. That man is Richard Bright, Managing Director of Reefer Trends, and we have mentioned him before in the Pundit. He’s coming over from the United Kingdom, and we asked Pundit Investigator and Special Projects Editor Mira Slott to find out what he would focus on in his presentation. …

Announcing a new dawn in organic distribution, Renaissance Organics, Inc. is a new distributor of organic produce and foods and has named DeeDee Digby as company president. A Georgia native and a well-known industry veteran, Digby has been involved in the produce, food and foodservice industries for more than 19 years, most previously as president of Destiny Organics, LLC. …