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With the reports of holiday spending coming in above the expectations of most, the new worry of those who choose to look through the economic glass darkly is that consumers are now tapped out.  »

Though it may take time to sort out and it may not even happen, the news and even serious thoughts of lumbering giant Federated buying lumbering giant May cannot help but be favorable to specialty and smaller-store America. »

Specialty coffee retailers are constantly searching for ways to grow their businesses. From opening another location to expanding their concept by offering more items, retailers have a wide variety of choices on how to do just that.  »

The prevailing weather indicates that it's time to fire up the grills, plan those weddings, and celebrate the outdoors. Once again, media messages will focus on the outdoors and you can travel right outside with them by mirroring the messages consumers see on television, in print, and on the bookshelf. »

To most Americans, the Normandy region of France is as famous for its coastline along the English Channel, upon whose beaches the Allied forces landed in June 1944, as it is for its food.  »

The marriage of wine and cheese is always a joyous one, and no where is this more evident than in one of Spain's most intriguing goat cheeses, Murcia al Vino, sometimes lovingly and whimsically translated as "Drunken Goat" due to the practice of washing the cheese in the region's robust red wines. »

Many parallels may be drawn between the cheese industry in Great Britain and the United States, especially as they have progressed in the past century. Of course, the traditions of cheesemaking extend back much further in the British Isles, at least by a thousand years, and the geography's size and continuity are but a microcosm of that to be found in the U.S. (the whole of the British Isles is roughly the size of New England), but the parallels remain nevertheless. »