All month, magazines and blogs have abuzz with forecasts for the 2009 food year. Some take their roles as psychic seriously, others skewer and flame-broil the whole concept. I, for one, find both approaches pretty entertaining. Whether earnest or facetious, most lists include something about fad diets and sustainability, as well as at least a couple recession-related predictions, whether that means home cooking or casual restaurants. Bacon, yet again, figures into more than one list.Enough summary. Here are the links:
From the serious...
- Gourmet presents its picks in slide-show form.
- Food and Wine sticks to restaurants.
- Epicurious says what is the new whatever.
- A blog called Eat Me Daily revisits and reviews last year's picks from Epicurious.
- Also from the blogosphere, Fine Furious Life weighs in.
- Serious Eats belies its name.
- Frank Bruni and Kim Severson unknit their collective brow in the Diner's Journal blog.
- Food Marathon, in my opinion, wins the day with their hilarious photo-enhanced shenanigans.

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12-30-2008 @12:17AM doodoolemonque said... Frank Bruni suggests, jokingly, that fondue will be big in '09. I had to laugh as my daughter, off on her first semester at college just discovered it like it was found money. She just couldn't wait to come home and tell us about it. She had noooo idea.
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