Mini Spark : Pulled - meat is coming closer...

Trade your BBQ smoker against a microwave : pulled porked, pulled beef, pulled chicken are coming to the shops ! Farmrich, the american ready to eat meat-meal producer is launching a new range in April 2014 ...

We do think that pulled meat will be a hot theme soon in NP.

More info : http://farmrichsmokehouse.com/

Moving from sweet to savory : Vegetable Ice Cream from Haagen-Dazs

Haagen-Dazs is about two launch two new flavors in Japan in its "Spoon Vege" range : Carrot and Tomato.

Some might say there was already some veggies ice cream in restaurant or ice cream parlor (like rosmarin sorbet), but we do believe this is the first industrial launch of vegetable ice cream.  After the savoury yogurt, is this a kind of trend to take an indulgent food, and to put some "healthy" ingredients in it ? Or the other way round, to make a treat out of non attractive food ?

The Pop Corn trend has reached Austria...

Austria got hit by the Pop Corn wave ... Whereas you can go to the hip Popcorner (http://popcorner.at) online or at their flagship store in Vienna to build your own pop corn mix, and pay it the adequate price, you can also go to Billa and get an interesting raspberry coco pop corn box...

And now is coming the Cragel ...

We obviously should have seen this one coming... After the Cronut and all its variation (http://umamispark.blogspot.de/search/label/Cronut), the Bagel Store in Brooklyn (http://www.thebagelstoreonline.com/) is launching the Cragel, a mix of Croissant and Bagel. According to USA Today, "the cragel was a concept owner Scot Rossillo came up with years ago. But he didn't feel the time was right for the cragel until now."

So, let's see when it arrives in Europe. Here are two pictures from http://instagram.com/thebagelstore#