/FOOD

ThroughCo: Food is a specialty practice of ThroughCo Communications, dedicated to providing branding and marketing strategy as well as hands-on solutions, content, and execution across the food and beverage ecosystem.

/FOOD: A Prologue

Susie Fogelson & Kathleen Ilch have a combined 34 years of food & beverage marketing and strategy experience (as former executives of Food Network & Cooking Channel). Together they developed innovative solutions for advertiser integrations across platforms (partnerships, linear, digital, & streaming). They also created an in-house talent management division with 80 active talent (including Bobby Flay, Alton Brown, Rachel Ray, & Guy Fieri), brokering 100s of deals with Fortune 500 advertisers (including Koh’s, Comcast, DISH, & Ziploc).

Susie also served as a judge on the hit reality series, “Food Network Star,” for nearly a decade.

Susie Fogelson and the Food Network Star judges

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from our blog: À LA CARTE
Restaurants 2024; Meatless; Wonder; The Chef’s List
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Food Trends 2024; Complex Heat; Fast Favs; More Canned Cocktails; Fried Egg Perfection
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Snacking with Gen Z; Twinkies & Ding Dongs; What Would Sarah Conner Do?; Fast Casual Happenings; Helping Morocco
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Avocado Thread; Meat Allergy;  Instacart to the Rescue; Fun Eats Comin’ Our Way
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Egg (Prices) Drop; ‘Shrooms and Test Tubes; Maybe Just Use Sugar?; A Frequency Thing

Egg prices no longer too-damn-high; Alternatives are all the range; An argument for cane sugar; We have several questions about this study…

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Hot Remix; Use-by; Taco Tuesday; Rich Dessert

Kraft Heinz goes freestyle; Eating old food; Taco Bell vs Taco John’s; Is that gold on your ice cream?

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PLEZi Nutrition; Olive Oil Prices; Drinks?; High-Dining; Wrong Turn

Michelle Obama launches a food brand; The drought in Spain; Less booze; Dinner at the edge of space; (Not just) road trip snacks

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Harmful Additives; Trouble with Tupperware; Bowl Fight; Artificial Wisdom; Lower; Grab Some Gruyère

Snacking on Carcinogens; Tupperware May Not Survive; Chipotle vs. Sweetgreen; Are They Supposed to Make Sense?; Subway Still for Sale; Celebrate All-Month Long

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Nuggets; Eggs Are Too Damn Expensive Pt. IV; Happy Meals; Edibles; Ramadan

New Menu Items; No Eggs For Sale; McDonald’s Diet, Take II; Booming Edibles; For Friends of Those Fasting for Ramadan

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Kitchen Composting; Ranch Ice Cream; Raspberry Rally; Supply Chain; AI

Compact Composter; Nat’l Ranch Dressing Day; A Run on The Raspberry Rally; Hope for the Supply Chain; AI

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Above All, Profits; Not @This Establishment; Can, Can; Where’s the Cheese?; DIY; Protect the Queen

Grocery Prices and Profits; No Kids allowed; Product Design; Dairy Moves; Saving Scraps; Healing the Bees

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Milk; Veg Round-Up; Food Companies - FDA Problems; In-Flight Dining; Farewell

Still Got it, But it’s Different; Round-Up in a Round-Up II; So Says the FDA; Here’s Breakfast; Lenny’s Pizza

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Chipotle 2.0; [More] Grocery Convenience; Peepsi; Steamy Citrus; St. Patty’s Decoy

BYO Bowl, Again; See U @the Drive-Thru; Because You Can’t Have Enough Peeps; NPR Already Did That; SPTO

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The FDA doesn’t CBD; Plant-based Chick-Fil-A; A Farewell to Cheese; Nat’l Pizza Day; Super Surplus; Big Game Eats

CBDo or CBDon’t?; Fried Cauliflower; Little Italy Will Miss the Cheese; A(nother) day for PIZZA; Recovering & Redistributing Super Bowl Food; Delicious Game Day Deals

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Produce Boost; Eggs are Damn Expensive Pt.III; In the Mix; Product Recall Alert; Heart-Shaped Donuts

Indoor Farms; Community Raised Chickens; Video Round Up; Canned Meat Recall; Krispy Valentines

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