Piazza Produce to host the Taste of Piazza 2015
Piazza Produce to host the Taste of Piazza 2015
The Taste of Piazza 2015 will be held Aug. 25 at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. The event is presented every other year by Piazza Produce Inc. The first show was held in 2009, making this the fourth such Taste of Piazza.
Michelle Agresta, sales and marketing assistant for Piazza, indicated that 130 of Piazza’s produce and specialty food vendors will be exhibiting on the fieldhouse concourse, which is the home of the NBA’s Indiana Pacers.
Between 800 and 1,000 customers and potential customers will attend the event, which runs from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m.
The 2015 Taste of Piazza theme is "Our Ingredients … Your Creation." Certain Piazza vendors are pairing to demonstrate product uses. For example, an Indiana cabbage supplier is working with a spring roll supplier to demonstrate how to use cabbage in preparing spring rolls, Agresta said.
Such exhibits will show Piazza’s customers “this is what you can do,” with the products, she noted. Students from The Chefs Academy in Indianapolis are cooperating in developing some of the recipes.
Adding variety to the Taste of Piazza 2015 is the participation of a local brewery, which is serving its beers and is cross-merchandising with local producers of cheeses and other items. Four local Indiana wineries are also involved in the show.
“'Local’ is so big and we are such a powerful player in local foods in Indiana” that the show and its special participants are a successful mix, Agresta said.
Piazza serves customers within a 250-mile radius. This includes Chicago, parts of Michigan, Kentucky and Illinois, as well as Indiana.
