As much as we love summer, we're really excited for fall.  And what's not to look forward to - there's a whole new range of flavors and foods to experiment with in the kitchen.  Fall is a great time to get back to the comfort foods we loved growing up and give them a modern twist.  This article from Specialty Food Magazine talks about how comfort food sales increase this time of year, and how our current economic situation might increase sales even more.  This article from Foodreference.com talks about how many are trying to make comfort foods slightly more health conscious.  This time of year is a great time to take advantage of local flavors and use them as promotions to drum up extra business, as we see in this article from Foodservice Director Magazine.  Is your menu ready for fall?

From the dining room on the 32nd floor of 111 Huntington Ave. in Boston, Todd Young not only has a unique perspective on the city and its surrounding suburbs, but also on the foodservice world.  As executive chef for Sebastian's Catering at Bain Capital, Young has the unique challenge of feeding a captive audience of hard working professionals five days a week.
 
"[You have to] provide as much variety and change as you can," Young said.  "I have no strict budget to go by.  My job is to make people happy."  Continue reading about Todd...