By Ron Tanner

The spectacular climate of sunny San Diego awaits the 16,000 trade professionals who will visit the 33rd Winter Fancy Food Show®, scheduled for Sunday, January 13 through Tuesday, January 15 at the San Diego Convention Center.

Timed to help retailers, restaurateurs and other resellers of specialty food reinvigorate their businesses for 2008, the Winter Fancy Food Show will fill the San Diego Convention Center with approximately 1,100 exhibitors offering and sampling 140,000 foods. Products will range from the silly to the sublime, from novelty confections for Easter baskets to truffle oil to impress friends at a high-end dinner party. The San Diego culinary community is eagerly awaiting the Show. More than 20 leading restaurants will be participating in Meet the Tastemakers®, the premiere networking event of the Show.

Here are some of the Show highlights:
• 80,000 of the finest foods in the world
• 1,100 domestic exhibitors
• International participants from 40 countries
• The West Coast debut of the Natural & Organic Pavilion, with nearly 200 exhibitors
• 17 seminars, workshops and events offered through the Educational Program
• What’s New, What’s Hot, featuring What’s New? Gift & Holiday, Natural & Organic and Foodservice
• A revamped and user-friendly Show Directory
• 16,000 of your peers and competitors, looking for the best in specialty foods to reinvigorate their business for 2008.

For more information, and to register for the Show, visit www.fancyfoodshows.com.