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2017 IHHS Show--Anyone Going?

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The 2017 iteration of the International Home & Housewares Show is being held March 18-21 at McCormick Place in Chicago.  This is the world's 2nd-largest tradeshow for the cookware and housewares industry, close behind Ambiente in Frankfurt.  It is a cornucopia of what's new and what's coming down the pike in the world of cookware, and if you've ever wondered about why makers do the things they do, this is your opportunity to talk with execs and their product development people (e.g., you can discuss ceramics with the 6th-gen owner of Emile Henry).  It takes an able cookware geek a full two days to cover all the booths.

 

Are any eGulls or eGuys besides me attending? 

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3 hours ago, Shelby said:

I'm not but I'd love to hear about your trip!  And, I bet I'm not the only one :) 

 

This will be my second year, part of my hyperconductive cookware project.  But the show is great fun just to see many familiar and new things.  There are small inventor types as well as the hard-nosed Big Pan reps.  Last year I had a delightful visit with the owner/founder of Chantal and the inventor of the Emsa PerfectBeaker.  It's like being in the world's largest kitchen store, that carries virtually everything, and being waited on by true experts.   

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I wanted to go, and I talked with the parent organization about it, but my being a regular poster on eG wasn't sufficient to warrant a media badge, so I'd have to register as a "Trade Guest" for $100. I'll pass.

"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."  -George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Act 1

 

"Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged."  -Max Tegmark, physicist

 

Gene Weingarten, writing in the Washington Post about online news stories and the accompanying readers' comments: "I basically like 'comments,' though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots."

 

"...in the mid-’90s when the internet was coming...there was a tendency to assume that when all the world’s knowledge comes online, everyone will flock to it. It turns out that if you give everyone access to the Library of Congress, what they do is watch videos on TikTok."  -Neil Stephenson, author, in The Atlantic

 

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual." -Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer

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