Gastronomic trends 2022

Over time we have been part of the great advances in technology. It has also happened with the gastronomic environment, and what a way! The importance of the gastronomy universe  has definitely been on a large scale.

We are living times in which taking care of health has become a priority for society. The number of people who have bet on healthier nutrition is surprising, and I truly believe that this has been one of the best initiatives that this generation has given us.

Among the gastronomic trends for the year 2022 we have highlight the following:

• Storytelling is here to stay

Let’s start explaining that storytelling is based on the art of telling stories in a descriptive way. Storytelling is an effective tool that directly aims to interact with people’s emotions, generating ties beyond a simple message or concept, since these are related to feelings and/or personal experiences that mark the receiver.

Food is a powerful vehicle for storytelling, as the popular phrase “You are what you eat” food is who we are, where we come from, how we live and what we believe. Our biographies are condensed into dishes and bites, like memories that adorn our stories.

• Homemade meal prep

The confinement produced by the pandemic, added to the excessive care in hygiene that we began to adopt to take care of our health, brought the restaurants home, and with this I mean it literally. The audience that arose in recipe blogs led the gastronomic sector to induce more food preparation at home, which is why the culinary world was not limited to just providing totally ready products, but to vary the dynamics and design your own products to prepare and enjoy at home.

• Delivery boom

delivery services  has had a great growth on the past few years, this is due to the change in consumer habits and other factors such as the arrival of Covid-19 virus that allowed most people would agree to order food without leaving their homes, now you could even order from a  supermarket, this is a convincing proof of how this has evolved.

• Digital gastronomy, a new gastronomic category

One of the trends that has been applied recently in restaurants, is that we can find the digital menu, with a QR code through the cell phone, you can see the menu and even the recommendations of dishes based on the last orders made by a customer. Another gastronomy trend are the hidden kitchens, These also known as ghost kitchens, home restaurants or dark kitchens, those are specialized kitchens for preparation of food for home delivery.

This gastronomic category is built from kitchens that are digital restaurants where there is no local, there is no dining room where customers can sit and there is no contact. Everything is managed digitally through a restaurant’s mobile app, its website, or food delivery apps.

• Vegan Food (The Future is Green)

Following trends, the vegan style reaches everyone’s ears, long ago not eating meat was  uncommon, we used to believe that people who adopted these habits were due to their culture or religion. the art of gastronomy, alternatives to animal protein are based on mushrooms and spices are incorporated, such as the monkey hair mushroom, great, by the way! There are also vegan cheeses, sausages, egg substitutes and dairy products.

The big interest that arises in health today has transformed the color on people’s dishes, there is even an order called «plate method» where vegetables and greens has the 50% of the space on the plate, then there are the proteins with 25% as well as the carbohydrates that add up to the other 25%.

• Optimization of resources, less waste.

The combination of quality and technology are the key on these times to offer a perfect gastronomic service experience, by systematizing processes, creating new personalized attention practices, these are the actions that are making businesses succeed today

Optimizing resources in the kitchen is a high-value trend and one of the best actions that could apply when using raw materials in the most smart way. For example; the fish bones are used for fumets, some parts of the vegetables that are part of the dish as well as can be part of its decoration, even in the making of a suitable cut of meat so as not to waste.