What could be more delicious right now than wrapping your mouth around a delicious shawarma filled to the brim with succulent strips of lamb and lashings of tzatziki – oh wait, is that a gyro or a shawarma?! Do you know the difference? If like many of us, you don’t know the one from the other, then this is just for you!
If you’ve noticed a growing trend of bacon memes over the years, you’re not alone. Bacon is deliciously unstoppable and has steadily made its way into everything from ice cream (we kid you not!) and bacon-flavoured lip balm (yes, it exists and people actually use it!) to a dating app which claims ‘when you're looking for love, you can only hope to find someone you love as much as bacon. While Sizzl can't guarantee that, it can guarantee your match will love bacon as much as you do.’
Gratitude is something we should aspire to every day, but even the most positive amongst us sometimes have our off days (load shedding comes to mind!), and it’s especially at those times that we need a good laugh to help us lift our spirits.
Another year has begun and along with iconic new year’s events like the dropping of the ball on Times Square or celebrating with fireworks in Sydney Harbour, there are a whole host of foods which have become synonymous with ushering in a new year around the globe.
We’re a nation that loves meat and quite honestly, what’s not to love. We’re said to consume around 2.9 million tons of poultry, beef and pork per annum. So yes, it’s fair to say we’re meat lovers. But have you ever wondered what the main difference is between red and white meat and why we’re encouraged to eat more of one than the other?
You’re not alone in your musings.
Yes, we know it’s not the holidays just yet, but now’s the time to start stocking up, because you don’t want to be caught in the Christmas madness that ensues later in December, do you? While roast turkey might once have been the traditional choice for Christmas dinner, it has steadily been surpassed by lamb and it’s easy to see why lamb is far more versatile depending on the cut of meat you choose and definitely more forgiving when it comes to succulence and tenderness.
Spring has officially begun in the Southern Hemisphere and while the weather might not be reflecting the change in season just yet, we’re not complaining, because along with all the other Cape Town meat wholesalers out there, we know our dams need the rain to stave off another terribly dry summer.
While food is part of our daily lives and naturally provides sustenance, it’s become so much more than that when we look back through the years. The food modern man has enjoyed over time, has formed part of our identity, it’s taken on a life of its own and become iconic markers on our timeline.
Each year McCormick & Company, a Fortune 1000 company that manufactures spices, flavourings and herbs for retail, commercial and industrial markets across the world, release their Flavour Forecast for the coming year – and this year is no different. So, let’s dive straight in to see what will inspire and entice us in 2018.
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Last week we looked to Innova Marketing Insights for their predictions on what’s hot and what’s not for the coming year – this week we turn to Packaged Facts and Mintel for their trends and we end off with highlights from Food24 and a few of our local, South African chefs.
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