Top 10 Food Trends for 2011

Top 10 Food Trends for 2011, The Food Channel

The Food Channel – where America gets its fill of food porn – has released its 2011 Trends Forecast – the Top Ten Food Trends for the coming year. In a nutshell:

1. The Canning Comeback: Food preservation has a rejuvenation.

2. Men in Aprons: A gender role reversal is bubbling up in the kitchen.

3. Local Somewhere: Support a local grower … anywhere.

4. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Sometimes we don’t want to know the nutrition numbers.

5. Appetite for Food Apps: Discount eats make the new smart phone apps delicious.

6. Small is the New Big Business: Getting closer to the customer.

7. Fresh Every Day: Rediscovering the butcher, baker, and cheese maker.

8. Chefs in Schools: Living up to their pledge, chefs join the cafeteria crews.

9. Discomfort Foods: Eating your way out of your comfort zone.

10. Eating for Sex and Other Tings: Looking for foods that keep us young, strong and active.

Read the detail behind each one of these headlines – there’s lots more!

“The new food simplicity is about putting value on the independent grower, on the person who is striving to make a difference – one farm, one person, one business at a time.”

Well said, Food Network! That’s what GoodFood World is all about!!