Food and Beverage Trends
What do you get when you combine the trends of fermented and spicy? You get kimchi (or kimchee)–a tangy and hot 4,000-year-old Korean staple that’s like a cross between a pickle and a salad. Kimchi is showing up everywhere right now. Rightfully so, if you ask us. We love the stuff.
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There is one flavor category that is always in style — sweet. Trends in texture, quality, and presentation may change, but we the people want sweet as part of the meal and in a decadent dessert. That will never change.
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The foods on FDR’s 2017 list of unusual food trends are so “in” that they are almost “out.” We didn’t put them on the official FDR food and beverage trends list because, honestly, we can’t stomach them or don’t expect them to go mainstream anytime soon despite the buzz.
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Sometimes a stack of sticky pancakes with maple syrup won’t do. Sometimes you need something with some salt and umami – something that’ll wake up your taste buds and make you break a sweat. If you’re someone who empties a bottle of hot sauce on your eggs in the morning, you’ll be happy to hear…
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Most traditional Hawaiian food came from somewhere else. Early Polynesians brought taro, yams, coconut, bananas, sugarcane, pork, and chicken. Europeans and Americans built sugarcane and pineapple plantations, which brought immigrants and cuisine from China, Korea, Japan, Portugal, and the Philippines. There were Mormon Samoans, Mexican cowboys, and then American GIs who introduced islanders to the…
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Chefs work with all of the tastes to create balance: salt, sweet, sour, bitter, and umami. We all have a special place in our hearts for salt, sweet, sour, and umami…but bitter?
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