A Chronological List Of 2020’s Most Unforgettable Food Trends
Huff PostIlustration: HuffPost; Photos: Getty Images This year has been. And we savored food as our favorite restaurants faced shutdowns, treasuring every bite as if it might be the last we’d taste. By the end of the month, a new and unprecedented food trend was the quiet shutdown of typically always open Chinese restaurants and markets as they felt the uneasy deja vu of the avian and swine flus that normalized mask-wearing on the other side of the world so many years ago. By the end of the month, people who hadn’t much experience buying groceries and cooking at home saw their fresh food beginning to spoil, and they started looking for thrifty ways to use their surplus. By month’s end, flour had become the hot, rare commodity and home bakers sought more challenging ways to use their newfound skills and experiment with this baking science.