After being caught up in a whirlwind the past twenty years, with food fads and lifestyles changing faster than you can run a marathon, many people say that it is now time to take a breath, slow down, and hark back to a simpler time in America—to go back to basics. And we’re all for it. At least in part. You see, after more than two decades as food professionals, and with all the exciting changes we have seen in the food world, we have no desire to take a step backward after coming so far. Instead we think a new and exciting version of those basics is what is needed.