by David Sax
Wayne Coates, Chia: The Complete Guide to the Ultimate Superfood (New York: Sterling, 2012).
Lindsey Duncan, “Chia: Ancient Super-Seed Secret.” Doctoroz.com, November 14, 2011.
Mehmet Oz, “Recharge Your Body,” Dr Oz Show, October 12, 2011.
_______, “Change Your Life with Chia,” Doctoroz.com, October 9, 2013.
_______, “The New Superfood,” oprah.com, http://www.oprah.com/health/The-New-Superfood.
Mary MacVean, “Chia Seeds Are Popular Again—This Time for Nutrition,” Los Angeles Times, June 2, 2012.
“Chia Demand Outstripping Supply to Lead to Big Crop Increase in Drop Area Next Year: BI Chief,” Nutra Ingredients USA, July 20, 2012, http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/Suppliers2/Chia-demand-outstripping-supply-to-lead-to-big-crop-increase-in-crop-area-next-year-BI-chief.
David C. Nieman, Erin J. Cayea, Melanie D. Austin, Dru A. Henson, Steven R. McAnulty, Fuxia Jin, “Chia Seed Does Not Promote Weight Loss or Alter Disease Risk Factors in Overweight Adults,” Nutrition Research 29, no. 6 (June 2009): 414–418.
Catherine Ulbricht, Wendy Chao, Katie Nummy, Erica Rusie, Shaina Tanguay-Colucci, Carmen M. Iannuzzi, Jeena B. Plammoottil, Minney Varghese, Wendy Weissner, “Chia (Salvia hispanica): A Systematic Review by the Natural Standard Research Collaboration,” Reviews on Recent Clinical Trials 4, no. 3 (September 2009): 168–174.
Leah Price, “Acai: Superfood or Harmful Fad?” Gourmet, April 2009.
Lynda Resnick with Francis Wilkinson, Rubies in the Orchard: How to Uncover the Hidden Gems in Your Business (New York: Doubleday, 2009).
Louise Foxcroft, Calories and Corsets: A History of Dieting over 2000 Years (London: Profile Books, 2011).
A. J. Jacobs, Drop Dead Healthy: One Man’s Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2012).
Marion Nestle, Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002).
Legal information related to POM lawsuit: “In the Matter of POM Wonderful LLC and Roll International Corp., companies, and Stewart A. Resnick, Lynda Rae Resnick, and Matthew Tupper, individually and as officers of the companies,” FTC File No. 082–3122, Docket No. 9344.
Chapter 5: Sales
Facts on the specialty food industry come from the Specialty Food Association.
Chapter 6: Data
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).
Chapter 7: Marketing
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.
Chapter 8: Ethnic Foods
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.
Chapter 9: Food Politics
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.
Chapter 10: Money
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).
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apter 11: Aftermath
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.
Epilogue
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/.
David 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.