“What have been the most significant events of the last decade?” Now, there’s a conversation starter. Here are our ideas of some of the top foods and food themes of the decade.
It was while we lived in Amish country, early in our marriage, that my habit for New Year’s Day was set. The tradition there was to eat roast pork, sauerkraut and black-eyed peas.
Do you dip your French fries in ice cream? The collision of salty and sweet. The crunch of the potato, balanced by the smooth creaminess of ice cream. It’s a killer combination. Magic happens at the intersections of life, especially where they serve food.
When’s the last time you went on a simple picnic, where you loaded up a basket or a cooler and headed for a park or a beach? Or sat back at an authentic Mexican place and enjoyed aged cheese and great cuts of meat? Isn’t it time?
Remember the days when Mom would experiment with a new recipe and you’d wrinkle up your nose? It was something you didn’t recognize. You didn’t know if you’d like it, and sometimes it took a little mustering of courage to give it a try.
There’s a story behind food that often starts with family heritage. On Day 4 of our Raves & Faves tour of Los Angeles, we came across two that are worth telling.
There’s a special feeling that comes from being known. The restaurant owners and managers we met on Day 3 of our Los Angeles Raves & Faves tour not only know the customers who walk through their door—they know what they want and where they want to sit.
That gleam you see is not just reflection from the kitchen fire—it’s passion. For the food. For the place where they work. For the people they meet. On Day 2 of our Los Angeles Raves & Faves tour, we saw that passion in the people behind the scenes.
It seems the nation—and its restaurants—can go several different directions in this dark economy. Today we observed two of them in action. Join us on our Raves & Faves Restaurant Tour of Los Angeles!
December at The Food Channel means a lot of things. Last minute cookie shoots, filtering through the food-oriented holiday gifts, choosing our favorite recipes of 2009, and completing our forecast of food trends for 2010. We need to breathe!
