http://feast.northstar-m.com Food Marketing Insight from North Star Marketing Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:18:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Caffeinated jelly beans...fizzy sodas...every single type of cheese and variation of olive oil imaginable. Was I  in heaven? No - there wasn't nearly enough milk chocolate and diet coke for that - but really close. No, it was the Fancy Food Show and it was in NYC. My favorite city + free samples of food = one swell time. Big ... http://feast.northstar-m.com/index.php/2008/07/03/i-went-i-saw-i-ate/ http://feast.northstar-m.com/index.php/2008/06/17/mcdonalds-fresh-salads/ He's not the newest Brand Specialist at North Star. And no I didn't get another dog... Actually I just met him today. I went to Sheetz for my morning Diet Coke and to my shock and horror I found the fountain DC was out-of-order (err!!) so I went back to ... http://feast.northstar-m.com/index.php/2008/06/02/meet-fred/ While going home (Upstate NY) over the Memorial Day weekend, I started to list all of the things I wanted to eat. What can I say, I love food - especially things I can only get at home. It's part tradition, memories from growing up and just the experience of ... http://feast.northstar-m.com/index.php/2008/05/27/iconic-food/ That's right trash fashion. Boy have times changed. Just a year ago designer bags were all the rage. Today in the it's-now-uber-cool-to-be-green world we live in, the idea of actually throwing away used food packaging just doesn't sit right with people. So what's the green alternative? Taking those used ... http://feast.northstar-m.com/index.php/2008/05/09/its-called-trashion/ Ok so this isn't technically a website review, but there'll be some links you can visit. Now for the big news... (if you haven't already guessed it from the subject line) North Star's pr client Snyder's of Hanover, will have a product shown in the upcoming blockbuster SPEED RACER! ... http://feast.northstar-m.com/index.php/2008/05/07/big-news-snyders-of-hanover-speed-racer/ Seth Godin had this on his blog today.  Too funny. I had to share. http://feast.northstar-m.com/index.php/2008/05/01/ad-for-a-meeting/ Following the trend of kicking off a campaign with a new, funky website McDonald's has decided to tackle the age-old questions, "What came first, the chicken or the egg?" to support their new Southern Style Chicken Biscuit - for breakfast. But there is a twist! And I mean that quite ... http://feast.northstar-m.com/index.php/2008/04/30/which-came-first-the-chicken-or-the-egg/ As of today, Earth Day, Whole Foods will no longer use/offer/buy plastic bags, instead they will offer recycled paper or  better yet, your own cloth bags. Considering it takes something like 1,000 years for a plastic bag to fully decompose in a landfill and Whole Foods is the nature loving ... http://feast.northstar-m.com/index.php/2008/04/22/earth-day-special-would-you-like-paper-or-paper/ Any ideas? They are a food type substance... Used almost everyday by many people... The thing on the left has been getting a bad rap lately... And the weird thing on the right can make you sneeze! If you guessed Salt and Pepper, you were right!   From the BBC News Site: This image of a peppercorn and ... http://feast.northstar-m.com/index.php/2008/04/16/what-are-these/