The Food Channel – where America gets its fill of food porn – has released its 2011 Trends Forecast – the Top Ten Food Trends for the coming year. In a nutshell:
1. The Canning Comeback: Food preservation has a rejuvenation.
2. Men in Aprons: A gender role reversal is bubbling up in the kitchen.
3. Local Somewhere: Support a local grower … anywhere.
4. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Sometimes we don’t want to know the nutrition numbers.
5. Appetite for Food Apps: Discount eats make the new smart phone apps delicious.
6. Small is the New Big Business: Getting closer to the customer.
7. Fresh Every Day: Rediscovering the butcher, baker, and cheese maker.
8. Chefs in Schools: Living up to their pledge, chefs join the cafeteria crews.
9. Discomfort Foods: Eating your way out of your comfort zone.
10. Eating for Sex and Other Tings: Looking for foods that keep us young, strong and active.
Read the detail behind each one of these headlines – there’s lots more!
“The new food simplicity is about putting value on the independent grower, on the person who is striving to make a difference – one farm, one person, one business at a time.”