Home > Foodservice Study: Italian Cuisine Most Popular Worldwide, Edging Japanese Restaurant customers appear to be as intrigued as ever by exploring foreign flavors – with a specific focus on Italian cuisine. A new study confirms as much; The Picky Eater website analyzed the world’s most popular cuisines and dishes and revealed that Italian cuisine (highlighted by pizza, pasta, and risotto) is the most popular, followed by Japanese and Indian food. “The popularity of international cuisine is rising, with many […]
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Diana Kennedy sank into a dimpled leather chair at the Hotel Emma in San Antonio, leaned over her glass of Scotch and told me that the real enemy of every writer was mediocrity. This was in 2019, when she was 96, and decades of deep culinary research had made her a leading authority on Mexican food for British and American home cooks — both despite the fact that she was a British-born white woman, and because of it. I thought […]
Niel Bodon wanted a food truck, but he created something even better. NORFOLK, Va. — When Niel Bodon was a child, he was already preparing for a life in the restaurant business. “My mom ran a place in England when I was 14, and I would jump behind the bar and make sandwiches for people,” Bodon smiled. He said he’s always had a side-gig in a restaurant. Bodon moved to the United States in 1995 as a teacher. Even then, […]
COVID put a serious dent in demand for global and other exotic cuisines, as Americans were not only unable to travel but were also seeking comfort in foods they knew well and that hearkened back to a more stable time. Now, in Year Three of the pandemic, vaccinated Americans are willing to start taking a few more risks, and that includes food. Even before the pandemic, some trends were starting to point away from experimentation with new cuisines, said Maeve […]
