Thursday, August 1, 2013

From cookie butter and Belgian waffles to cronuts: The irresistible sweetness of food crazes


No one’s a food Nostradamus to be able to predict which food craze will spread like wildfire, but any sensible food entrepreneur will tell you that when it comes to Filipinos, something sweet almost always does the trick. 
 
It’s our fondness for sweets that has catapulted pearl shakes to the biggest food fad of 1999, the success of which was mimicked by the indomitable milk tea of 2011. Do not forget the mushrooming of coffee shops a la Starbucks Coffee, which started in 1997, and, as you can see (in every corner of Metro Manila), has managed to survive the two-year fad curse.

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