And the Winner Is … The Year’s Best Food Packaging

Annual awards for achievement are as American as apple pie and the latest celebrity chef’s declaration that bacon bit cream cheese will replace lox on Sunday brunch menus. Sprouting headlines in food periodicals and social media, year-end “winners” are claimed to be the harbingers of the coming 12 months. And once in a while some reporters dare to stretch upwards to the packaging, à la WorldStar from the World Packaging Organization or AmeriStar from the Institute of P…