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GOURMET NEWS www.gourmetnews.com n JANUARY 2017 n GOURMET NEWS 4 Publisher Kimberly Oser Senior Associate Publisher Jules Denton Associate Publisher Carlos Velasquez Editorial Director Lorrie Baumann Associate Editors Jeanie Catron • JoEllen Lowry • Karrie Welborn Graphic Designers Yasmine Brown • Jonathan Schieffer Senior Account Manager Marcos Morhaim Account Managers Adrian Chacon • James Gennette • Cami Jimenez Tara Neal • Anthony Socci • Riley Ussery Director of Operations Tara Neal Customer Service Managers Sarah Glenn • Caitlyn McGrath Show Logistics & Distribution Stacy Davis • Steven Taylor • Hannah Stefanovich European Sales Enrico Cecchi Publishing office: 1877 N. Kolb Road, Tucson, AZ 85715 520.721.1300/Fax: 520.721.6300 Subscriber services: Gourmet News P.O. Box 30520 Tucson, AZ 85751 Gourmet News is published by Oser Communications Group ©2017 All rights reserved. Founder Lee M. Oser www.gourmetnews.com A SPECIAL SHOW ISSUE OF GOURMET NEWS Healthy Cultural Snacks: SunTropics Captures Market with Coconut Rice Pudding With the growing demand for all-natural and ready-to-eat snacks, consumers will be eating up SunTropics' new coconut- milk based puddings in simple, single- serving cups. Reports show that cultural flavors and "coconut everything" are cur- rently trending in snacks among all ages. From the single Millennial searching for the newest trendy ethnic treat to the mom seeking a healthy variety in her kiddo's lunchbox, SunTropics captures the widely expanding market of unique snack cups with its new Coconut Rice Pudding in a variety of innovative flavors. Gluten free. Dairy free. No preserva- tives. These highly desired components are all attained in small, slowly simmered batches of whole coconut milk, Thai rice and freshly shaved coconut. Available in Original, Sea Salt Caramel and Cinnamon, each coconut milk-based recipe is contin- ually met with enthusiastic consumer re- Principe Delivers True Italian Tradition Founded in 1945, Principe is a third-genera- tion, family-owned Italian company with more than 70 years of tradition, experience and unique know-how. The company, fa- mous for its innate ability to always move forward and constantly innovate while main- taining sacred respect for tradition, has quite an interesting history. After losing everything in WWII, the Dukcevich family was forced to flee its native home of Croatia and take refuge in Trieste, a multi-cultural port city in Northeastern Italy. This area, in the region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, is located on the Aus- tro-Hungarian border and is enveloped by the Alps. Noticing the unique culture and eating habits of their new home city, the Dukcevich family began producing and sell- ing traditional recipe frankfurters and cooked and roasted hams to the locals, and the rest, as they say, is history! But they didn't stop there. Today, Principe is a leading top quality producer of one of Italy's most prestigious food products: Prosciutto di San Daniele. Principe's ever-growing portfolio of prod- ucts includes various agings of Prosciutto di San Daniele, Prosciutto di Parma and Pro- sciutto Italiano, an ample selection of cooked and roasted hams, Mortadella from Bologna, Roasted Porchetta and Pancetta, Speck IGP Alto-Adige, Bresaola, Cotechino and many other authen- tic regional Italian deli meats. P r i n c i p e not only im- poses higher restrictive standards on its products than most regulatory boards do, but also de- mands direct control over every step in the production process, from the development of free range natural farms to in-house de- boning and curing. This meticulous quest for perfection and constant innovation al- lows for dependable, consistent, top quality products and an exclusive, completely Continued on Page 146 Continued on Page 146 G OURMET N EWS T H E B U S I N E S S N E W S P A P E R F O R T H E G O U R M E T I N D U S T R Y ® sponses that always seem to end in the question the company has grown to expect: "Where can I get this?" Meeting market demands and exceeding consumer expectations have been the key to SunTropics' success since 2002. The Lao Family founded the small family business in response to the lack of natural tropical fruit products that originated from real fruit rather than artificial flavors. They discovered not only an entire market of ethnic groups who

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