The Winter 2008 International Fancy Food Show in San Diego, California has just concluded. The fancy food shows are the biggest trade events of their kind in the U.S. for members of the specialty, gourmet, ethnic and natural foods industries. Get a behind the scenes look at the show in this article by an industry pro who knows of what he speaks.

As the holiday season begins, Gift Favor Baskets makes the annual trip to the UK-based BBC Good Food Show, scouting out new trends and developments for their gourmet gifts. The 2007 Good Food Show included over 600 exhibitors, with hundreds of food suppliers, dozens of celebrity chef demonstrations and a wide assortment of culinary equipment.

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About the show…MUNCHCAST is a celebration of all the foods that we love but aren’t supposed to have. Forbidden pleasures like Eskimo Pies, corn dogs, and anything covered in cheese. If it’s fried, frosted or on a stick, you’ll hear about it on MUNCHCAST.

its tell about "Bali Dining Festival" which will present on august 2007 in Bali. And the varieties of restaurants in Bali open their doors to gourmets and gourmands as they show off their culinary prowess. Is that innovative food promotion.

A gourmet is a person with a sensitive and discriminating palate, and who is knowledgeable in fine food and drink or haute cuisine. The word is from the French gourmet, a valet in charge of the wines. It is often used as an adjective for meals of especially high quality, whose makers or preparers have used special effort or art in presentation or cooking the meal, or for facilities equipped for preparing such meals, such as a restaurant. The term and the practice may have negative connotations of elitism or snobbery, but is often used positively to describe people of refined taste and passion.Gourmet is often used to modify another noun: gourmet cooking; gourmet restaurants. (French, from Old French, alteration (influenced by gourmand, glutton; see Gourmand) of groumet, servant, valet in charge of wines, from Middle English grom, boy, valet.) Usage note: A gourmet is a person with discriminating taste in food and wine, as is a gourmand. Gourmand can also mean one who enjoys food in great quantities. An epicure is much the same as a gourmet, but the word may sometimes carry overtones of excessive refinement.Foodie is often used by the media as a conversational synonym for gourmet. The word was coined synchronously by Gael Greene and by Paul Levy and Ann Barr, co-authors of The Official Foodie Handbook (1984). But there are important distinctions to be made between the two terms. Some gourmets would not consider themselves foodies and many foodies would not consider themselves gourmets. Generally speaking, a foodie is a person who has a special interest in food, even foods at which a self-identified gourmet would turn up his nose.Certain events such as wine tastings cater to people who consider themselves gourmets and foodies, while publications such as Gourmet Magazine often serve gourmets with food columns and features. See alsoCulinary artFoodieAristology, the science of diningThe Frugal Gourmet, a cooking showThe Surreal Gourmet, a cooking showFood columnGood Eats, a cooking showGourmet Museum and Library