Home Economics – Top Ten Food Trends for 2011
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Word from the creative team at My Secret Kitchen, a company that launches unusual and trend setting foods through home tasting events is that 2011 will see us focusing on ten top themes:
- Reducing salt, sugar and other undesirables
- Adding a citrus twist – not just orange and lemon but also tangerine, bergamot, and others. Bergamot is the one that gives Earl Grey its scent in case you didn’t know.
- Eating from the hedgerow –rosehip, blackberry, elderflower and sloe
- Smoking, toasting and roasting for added flavour
- Functional foods that taste good but are also good for you
- Home entertaining
- Extreme BBQs (I see all BBQs as extreme – and unnecessary)
- Flourishing fair trade and free range
- Increasing popularity of exotic flavours – Thai, North African cuisine
- Good quality chocolate.
With the exception of the BBQs and the potentially competitive home entertaining, these don’t seem too scary. I like the emergence of good quality chocolate and I can’t help being excited by the prospect of the fruits of the hedgerow on the supermarket shelves. I wonder who’ll be doing the harvesting?
