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7 Food and Drink Trends We've Noticed So Far in 2011
We see an awful lot of menus and eat out a bunch of times a week. Now that we're halfway into 2011, we've started to spot a handful of food and drink trends. Lamb, homemade syrups and sodas, burger chains spreading, and more. Here are seven on our radar right now. What else have you noticed?10 Menu Trends We'd Like to See in 2011
Whether it's lamb (the new bacon), donuts or small plates, menu trends are pretty easy to spot. Well here are a few that we'd actually like to see more of in the upcoming year. Over at the AmEx OPEN Forum, Kenji shares 10 trends we'd like to see more of on menus this year. Check out the article and tell us what you think.When Food Trends Get Out of Control
There comes a watershed phase in the life of every trend in which the concept begins to wrest control from the flavor, and that's the stage at which we'd like it to stop, please. Case in point: some Korean tacos we had in the office this week.10 Food Memes, Themes, and Schemes of 2010
After reading over all of your ideas, and sitting around the table at headquarters brainstorming the most memorable food trends of 2010, here's a list of the ten biggies that defined this year. Pie, designer ice, Korean tacos, Four Loko—let's talk about 2010.Cupcakes Defeat Bacon, Finally, on Google This Year
As you can see from this graph, "bacon" has been a more popular Google search term over the years, but in 2010, "cupcake" beat it. Cupcakes! The little frosted cake nubbins beat cured pig?! Cupcakes have been trailing for a while, but finally persevered this year. [via @waxpancake]Food Styling: The Messy, Homemade Look Is In
"Right now, people like messy," said New York-based food stylist Alison Attenborough in this fascinating Wall Street Journal piece on how food styling in glossies and on television has changed over the years. No more hairspray and powdered deodorant spray gimmicks to engineer that "perfect" luster—now it's all about the au naturel, bitten-apart, cheese-dribbling handmade look.London's Cool New Breakfast: Bento
Seems like some London hotels are moving away from the traditional full English or continental breakfast and offering something new (at least to Western diners): Japanese bento breakfasts. The move, hoteliers hope, will increase bookings for the first meal of the day, as curious eaters may be likely to try something new. We all know that serious eaters are more adventurous than most, so what's the most outside-the-norm (for you) breakfast you've tried?Unique Food Trends: Houston, Texas
What's shaking in the Houston food scene? A rockstar chef named Bryan Caswell, some Texas-Italian fusion cuisine, and, though they've been around for a while, the pastry pockets known as kolaches. These are just a few of the city's trends—chime in with more that you've noticed. Kolaches Mixed box of kolaches from the Kolache Factory. [Flickr: finna dat] Kolaches, a sort of Eastern European Hot Pocket, are all over Texas. The pastry pocket is a fun food medium—just think of how many meats, veggies, and cheeses you can stuff in there. With such a big Czech presence in central Texas, most of the really good ones are there, but have gradually spread east to Houston (the supposed best are in...Is Mayo Making a Comeback?
[Image: Food Mayhem] With fried chicken, bacon, and other fatty comfort foods feeling a renaissance, it makes sense that mayo would jump on board too. Nostalgia sells, and Hellmann's, perhaps the king of the mayo brands, is capitalizing on that. As Ad Week points out, their recent ads recall the good ol' days of meat and potatoes and so-called "real food," which includes the gloopy amalgam of eggs, oil, and vinegar. Even Bobby Flay is appearing in Hellmann's ads this holiday season, touting it as an essential part of the Thanksgiving spread, making mashed potatoes mashier and apple-cranberry crisps gooier. Cheeseburger man Kevin Pang of the Chicago Tribune recently called it the underrated condiment and John Kessler of the...Hot Topics: Technique of the Week | The Food Lab
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