The New Year, 2012, is here – day one and a time to look forward, to look forward to the food trend predictions for the year. Last week I took a look back and posted my top ten list of top ten list of 2011 food trends. As you review these lists you will see some overlap on the 2012 food trend predictions.
Still rock solid is local resourcing, chefs growing their own and what our children are eating. A number of these lists of 2012 food trend predictions are acerbic, tongue in cheek which reminds me that offal is a food trend.
Will all these trends come to fruition; there are contradicting notes on these lists saying the hot food for 2012 will be Peruvian food, fast food Asian to Indian street food. Maybe we need Johnny Carson back as Carnac the Magnificent who knows the answers before the questions. Guessing we will gather back here on the eve of 2013 and reflect back as to what really got our culinary attention.
1 Nation’s Restaurant News: Top 20 predicted menu trends
Whole grain food items for children to house-made artisan ice cream
2 Esquire.com: Eat Like a Man– 15 Predictions for 2012
John Mariani’s cynical look of food trends to come. “Peruvian food has no chance of becoming a trend for the simple reason that beyond ceviches – already ubiquitous – there’s not a helluva lot more to Peruvian cuisine” and “Wine guru Robert Parker will wake up one day with total amnesia and a vague sense that he was once a rodeo rider.”
3 Eating Well Magazinefor Shine: The Only 2012 Food Trends List You Need to Read
Bananas will be yellow to parents will seek ever more innovative ways to feed their kids spinach without discussing, touching, planting, harvesting, thinking about, chewing or swallowing any actual leaves
4 Post Tribune: 10 food trends to watch in 2012
Baby boomers keep on truckin to the new role of the male shopper
Custom French fries to grilled cheese infused vodka
6 Atlantasfinest.net: Food Trends 2012
Inhalable foods like coffee and chocolate sans the calories to new hybrid fruit, Pluerry
7 Epicurious.com: 2012 Food Trends
The return to hotel dining to moonshine
8 TheFoodChannel.com: More Food Trend Predictions for 2012
This spud’s for you to Indian street food
9 NewHope360.com: Barramundi, turmeric, ethnic foods top trends in 2012
10 HuffingtonPost.com: Food Trends 2012 – What we will see in the year ahead
Frontier in Taps to French Dip Sandwiches
11 TheCattleNetwork.com: What’s brewing for 2012
Pickling to Fast Casual Asian
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