The Winter Fancy Food Show has the hottest food trends, newest products and best networking opportunities in the specialty food trade. The 36th Winter Fancy Food Show is set for Jan. 16-18, 2011, in San Francisco.

The Winter Fancy Food Show will showcase 80,000 specialty foods and beverages, with more than 1,500 exhibitors from 50 countries and 17,000 attendees. The program includes more than 20 education sessions. For more information on how to attend, visit specialtyfood.com.

Since 1955, the Fancy Food Shows have been North America’s largest specialty food and beverage marketplace. Between the Winter Show in San Francisco and the Summer Show in New York City, the National Association for the Specialty Food Trade events bring in more than 40,000 attendees from more than 80 countries to see 260,000 innovative specialty food products, such as confections, cheese, coffee, snacks, spices, ethnic, natural, organic and more.

Only NASFT Members can exhibit at the Shows, where retailers, restaurateurs, distributors and others discover innovative, new food and beverage products. The shows are attended by every major food buying channel, influential members of the trade and consumer press and other related businesses.