Updated: 11 January 2013 | 6:30 am in conversations
Is the ‘local food’ trend here to stay?
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Research analysts, marketing groups and food experts have released their culinary predictions for 2013. As expected, the “eat local” movement will continue to play a major role at home and in restaurants.
“What I’ve found, thus far, is that people want to know where their food comes from and have a connection to it,” says Nathan Lein, co-owner of Big Boy Meats at NewBo City Market.
This culinary consciousness has locally-grown meats and vegetables topping several trend lists for the year, as chefs and home cooks alike want fresh choices.
This is good news for Eastern Iowa, which boasts more than 40 farmers markets, plus several food co-ops.
Do you think the “local food” trend is here to stay? Do you embrace the trend yourself?
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Is the ‘local food’ trend here to stay?
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I can’t speak for others but the local food trend is here to stay at our house.
However, I have to say that NewBo has been a disappointment. It is marketed as a “year round farmer’s market” but it is more like the food court at Linn-Mar mall.
I went there one time and yeah that is the impression it gave me. an extension of the food court at Lindale mall more then a market place where different stuff would be sold weekly, like a real farmers market has. It is just going to be the same o same o week after week.
When the trend is organic and grown closer to the people eating, the quality is higher, and the food looks and tastes delicious, seems obvious it is going to stick around. A 10 % a year growth rate in the food industry suggests the same thing. Once people learn how to cook for themselves and don’t have to rely on cardboard boxes and tin cans to put a meal on the table, it will be a grand success story.