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Food trends of 2012

By Catherine Toth Fox • December 7, 2011 • Food

Last night I was reading the blog for the James Beard Foundation — a New York-based national professional nonprofit that serves to promote the culinary arts — and read its predictions for 2012.

Here’s what it suspects will be trending next year:

• Locavorism, redefined: We’re talking recipe revival, with foragers and historians retrieving recipes from the past.

• Donuts, donuts, donuts: Apparently, donut-related content online is up, indicating our fascination with these sugary wonders. In fact, malasadas made its list.

• Thai revival: This cuisine — one of my favorites — is expected to make a big comeback.

• Nordic menus: I have no idea what Nordic cuisine is — ingredients include sea buckthorn, wood sorrel, bark flour — but restaurants may start featuring it.

• Caneles are the new cupcakes: Yes, cupcakes are on the way out, according to the blog. In fact, macaroons made a quick appearance and are now replaced by these treats from Bordeaux. Caneles are made from an egg-yolk-enriched crêpe-like batter that’s baked in copper molds lined with caramel and beeswax.

• Eat-in kitchen: You’ll be pulling up a chair next to the stove.

• Blood: Blame it on “Twilight.” The next step in the snout-to-tail movement might just be the blood. Blood pancakes, blood cups, sauces thickened with blood.

• Smaller portion sizes: Mega meals are so 2011. Fine-dining portions are continuing to get smaller and tapas might become the new entree.

Got any thoughts on this?

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4 Comments

  • Reply oldshoes December 7, 2011 at 1:46 am

    NOT BUYING IT. CUPCAKES WILL NEVER BE EXTINCT. SHOUT IT FROM THE MOUNTAINTOP…..YOU’LL HAVE TO PRY THAT CUPCAKE FROM MY FROSTING COVERED HANDS…

  • Reply WildeOscar December 7, 2011 at 7:26 am

    All I want for Christmas is for Cat to see merit in continuing to do this blog, The Cat Dish. I can’t ask for a whole year at a time; that would be greedy of me. I’ll be happy with a rolling 90 days. Ah, Christmas!

  • Reply Dania December 7, 2011 at 1:53 pm

    Thanks for this post. I was on JB site last night too. I also will include liquors, popups and foraging.

  • Reply Katherine December 11, 2011 at 4:42 am

    What an interesting article about the food trends! I totally get the locavore thing. Recipe revival is good to hear about too; I get so worried about the state of old records and history as more and more bookstores & libraries close. VERY cool.
    I also have no idea what Nordic food would be all about.

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Born and raised on O‘ahu, Hawaiʻi, Catherine Toth Fox has been chronicling her adventures in her blog, The Cat Dish, for more than a decade. She worked as a newspaper reporter in Hawai‘i for 10 years and continues to freelance—in between teaching journalism, hitting the surf and eating everything in sight—for national and local print and online publications. She’s currently the editor of HAWAIʻI Magazine.

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