I’ve already shared some of my favorite finds from the Winter Fancy Food Show 2018 , but another reason I attend the show is to try and identify what’s trending. Here are my topic picks. Mushrooms Mushrooms seem to be everywhere and showing up in ways that are a bit unexpected. I first discovered crispy oyster mushroom “chips” in Taiwan, but at the show this year I saw Yuguo shiitake chips from China.They are light and crunchy and supposedly healthy. I like them a lot. There were also two kinds of mushroom jerky, one made from mushroom caps and another made from mushroom stems in "Zesty Thai" flavor, available from Pan's Mushroom Jerky . Last but not least there were somewhat medicinal elixirs, cocoa and “coffee” made from lion's mane, chaga and reishi mushrooms by Four Sigmatic . I wasn’t crazy about how they tasted but they are being sold more as a health product than a gourmet one. Coconut snacks Coconut is nothing new, but it’s being used as a c...
