New year, new decade, and on the culinary side, renewal is also in the air. After a month under the sign of detox, it's time to get up to speed with the culinary trends that will mark 2020.
1 - Declare war on food waste and reduce your waste.
Forget family-size portions and over-packaged products. To avoid regularly throwing away expired products, shop more often to buy only what you will consume in the following days. Buy your fruit and vegetables at the market or through short distribution channels to avoid supermarket bags and trays, and for your tea, cereals, pasta, biscuits, nuts, etc., opt for loose goods.
2 - Drink more and more... alcohol-free!
Have you taken up the Dry January challenge (alcohol-free January)? You can extend it. Drinking less is the trend of 2020. Bars and restaurants are also on board and are offering more and more alcohol-free cocktails on their menus. From now on in society, "sober is the new cool".
3 - The rise of the vegan diet.
More respectful of the environment and animal welfare, and better for your health, it is now more popular than ever. With the many substitutes for animal products available, it's tempting to give it a try.
4 - We're shying away from meat.
Not quite ready to adopt a 100% plant-based diet? Cut your steak in half and become a flexitarian in 2020. In other words, eat meat less often, but of higher quality. That's good, because seafood, fish, fruits and vegetables are also delicious grilled, roasted, or smoked on the barbecue.
5 - A richer diet.
This obviously doesn't mean eating more fatty foods, but rather opting for products made with wholemeal flours, which are richer in fiber, vitamins and minerals, unlike refined 'white' flours, from which the grain's outer layer, which contains all these trace elements, has been removed. Also, consider varying your grains and pulses: quinoa, rye, spelt, rice, buckwheat, corn, lupin, lentils, chickpeas, etc.
6 - Goodbye to cocktail parties and hello to single dishes.
Homemade food is popular, and more and more of us are getting into - or at least trying to get into - cooking. And in 2020, we're getting straight to the point by offering our guests a single dish.
7 - We're going back to traditional recipes.
Local cuisine, family traditions, culinary secrets passed down from generation to generation – that's what's making mouths water this year. We're going back to our roots and reinterpreting our parents' and grandparents' recipes. But be warned, due to the ecological emergency, we're twisting classics like shepherd's pie or lasagna by replacing the meat with plant-based proteins.
8 - We're learning about Japanese cuisine.
To live in time with the next Olympic Games, which will take place in the summer of 2020 in Tokyo, we're getting out our chopsticks to enjoy dishes typical of this rich and varied but also healthy cuisine. We're feasting on bentos, ramens, gyozas and yakitoris, which we can make ourselves.
Discover our homemade recipes:
9 - We consume local and seasonal products.
Visit producers, AMAPS (community-supported agriculture networks), farmers' markets and other short-circuit stores to buy seasonal food produced as close as possible to our plates. Discover the list of seasonal winter products.
Happy New Year to all, and above all, bon appétit!
