With the many documentaries sparking debates in the food world along with the changes being seen across the world in our diets, take a look at the 7 food trends of 2020 that are increasingly questioning our eating habits.
1. The vegan diet
Faced with the environmental emergency, the emptying of the ocean and the animal violence generated by industrial exploitation, the transition to a vegan diet is becoming more and more popular. At the heart of many documentaries, the Golden Globes 2020 ceremony offered, for the first time, an 100% vegan menu to set an example. A food trend that is likely to continue.
2. CBD Based Foods
In the form of vitamin-rich smoothies, jams, candies or even seeds to sprinkle in salads, CBD products are everywhere, and are loved for their relaxing virtues.
3. Healthy Street Food
From vegan burgers than recreate the taste of meat and gourmet pizzas made with cauliflower flour to coconut milk sundaes, in 2020, street food recipes will only be popular if their ingredients are 100% healthy. A trend that also helps to fight against the idea that healthy eating is the same as dieting.
4. Alternative Milks
Because industrial cow’s milk is particularly indigestible and nutritionally unattractive, its more natural alternatives are becoming much more popular. Either almond, coconut, rice or oat based, these alternative milks are as popular at home as they are on the coffee menu.
5. Japanese Desserts
At a time when Japanese gastronomy has never been so popular, with the opening of more and more sushi and other izakaya bars, Japanese desserts are slowly but surely making their way onto our plates. After the popularization of mochi, Japan still has many less well known recipes to share including the yokan, a sweet creation with a base of red beans, jellied with agar-agar or wagashi which can be found at Ogata in Paris.
6. Babka
Having becoming the absolute food obsession in Paris at the end of 2019, babka will still be everywhere to be seen in 2020. On the menu of restaurants with Mediterranean inspirations and reinterpreted by renowned pastry chefs, it can be found in a new bakery, Babka Zana, which is exclusively dedicated to it and which will open its doors on January 15 on rue Condorcet.
7. Traditional Recipes
Even though Paris is already teaming with revamped bistros and other bubbles, traditional dishes continue to prove popular in 2020. The proof? The general obsession for pâté en croûte in France (a typical French pie that is very popular especially that of Maison Verot). The publication of the book Merci Mamie by Jean Imbert, compiling all the best dishes of his grandmother, the Pithivier (another traditional French pie) on the menu of Maison Sota or the upcoming opening of Rosie, a new charming brasserie in Paris, all serving dishes just like momma or poppa used to make.
