I’m just putting the finishing touches to a menu of food trends for 2011+ (a collaboration with Charles and Wayne at The Food People). In the meantime, I spotted this list of food and drink trends in today’s issue of the Globe & Mail.

Food trends

1. Vegetable ash
2. Olive oil alternatives
3. Locally grown global produce
4. Sea buckthorn
5. Drinklable snacks
6. Healthy indulgence
7. US invasion
8. Artisanal cheese
9. Better breakfasts
10. Old-school dishes

Drink trends

1. A brown tide (brown spirits)
2. Guerrilla shoppers (value shoppers)
3. Baskin Robbins at the bar (flavoured spirits)
4. A crack in interprovincial walls (regulation)
5. Locapours rising (localism)
6. Wine with extra fruit
7. A better pink cocktail (Negroni on the rise)
8. Canadian wine goes au natural (organic & sustainable)
9. The other cabernet (cabernet franc)
10. White the new red