Predicting Pasta’s Potential

It appears the stars are aligning for the pasta industry. Consumers are cooking at home on average 5.1 nights per week, according to the Food Marketing Institute’s (FMI) 2015 Power of Meat report. And according to Multi-sponsor Surveys’ 2014 Gallup Study of Dinner, 71% of meal preparers served pasta one or more times weekly.

FMI reports that 36% of shoppers are preparing more pasta, soup, and casseroles versus five years ago; 28% are preparing more ethnic foods and 26%, more stir frie…