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Hungry for some lasagna cupcakes?

February 05, 2011 By: bozobouffe Category: Uncategorized

They’re part of the latest odd food craze from trendy markets and caterers.

You thought the cupcake craze would just fizzle out? No chance. It’s just moving away from sweet and into the direction of the savory.

At Trader Joe’s in New York, they’re selling frozen turkey meatloaf muffins, topped with spinach and mashed potatoes, which, by all accounts, are particularly good. Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, the entertainment industry’s latest obsession is lasagna cupcakes.

Lasagna cupcakes, or individual lasagnas in the shape of cupcakes, are the creation of Heirloom-LA, a catering company based in Eagle Rock, a town near Silverlake. About 18 months ago, Matt Poley, a partner in the company, said a parent had requested macaroni and cheese for a children’s party, “but doesn’t a big dish of macaroni and cheese look so unappealing?” he asked on a recent visit to his kitchen. “So we made individual macaroni and cheese, and we realized we could do this with

Cupcakes and six more dying food fads

August 06, 2010 By: bozobouffe Category: Uncategorized

Could the end of the cupcake trend be around the corner? Jacob Goldstein at NPR posed that question in response to a Wall Street Journal story that linked the popularity of cupcakes to growth in the New York City job market. Goldstein asserted that we are in a cupcake bubble: “‘Did they really think cupcakes were different than cake?’ the world will ask after the cupcake market implodes. ‘Why did they wait in those ridiculous lines just to buy cake?’”