Last week I attended a small intimate Media Event at Musgrave Spirits in Salt River, with only ten guests, to introduce its Musgrave Copper flavour-infused Pot Still Brandy. Musgrave Spirits is well-known for its Gin, and its Pink Gin in particular. We were introduced to the Brandy on ice, with mixers, as Savoury drinks, and ended off the evening with delicious Don Pedros. Continue reading →
American restaurant consultants Baum + Whiteman have predicted twelve food and beverage trends for this year, reports Fine Dining Lovers:
1: Restaurants in Retail Stores: restaurants will be used as a means of attracting more shoppers into malls, department stores, hotels, airports, and museums.
2: Tasting-Only Menus: Tasting menus are increasingly replacing à la carte menus in fine dining restaurants, the diners having a more exact idea of what they are in for in terms of cost.
3: The Rise of Fine Dining Chicken (Posh Chicken): Chicken is predicted to become as desired as a good steak when eating out, ‘cooked Sous Vide and served alongside foie gras, black mission figs or quail eggs’.
4: Out with Food Courts, In with Food Halls: Food Halls serving fine fresh foods in malls, even if more expensive, will replace the fare of fast food chains dominating shopping malls currently.
5: The Rise of Fish: Oily fishes such as anchovies, sardines, and mackerel are increasing Continue reading →
Americans are consulting dietitians more than ever before, to gain nutritional information and advice about diets. A survey conducted amongst 500 dietitians highlighted the following food trends for 2014, likely to apply locally too. According to eTurboNews the top 14 eating trends are as follows:
1. Anti-wheat: wheat-reduced diets like the Paleo diet, gluten-free, or ‘wheat belly‘, is the top eating trend, despite there being no evidence that these lead to weight-loss.
2. Ancient grains: are popular again, despite the contradictory anti-wheat trend.
3. Low fat: the focus on low fat diets will largely fall away.
4. ‘MyPlate‘: this educational tool to create a healthy diet and to eat correctly is recommended to their clients by the majority of dietitians.
5. Health: this is an important consideration for shoppers, so much so that in-store Supermarket Continue reading →