St. Louis Magazine food writer, George Mahe, highlights the 2013 food trends for St. Louis and leads in with this:
"When discussing upcoming food trends for the new year, national gastronauts have been waxing about items like spit-roasted pig’s tails, leek ash, and fish milt (that’s fish sperm to you and me). We thought the more sensible and relevant approach would be to discuss what we predict will happen here, in St. Louis. (And if fish milt never makes it as far as the Gateway City, we’re fine with that.)"
Gotta love St. Louis, always feet on the ground.
1. Five Star Burgers! Yes! The absolute best burgers.
2. Kale. Kale in salad, kale in or around everything. Here at Concordia Seminary we've been growing it for a few years now and it just keeps on coming. The food service people make some mighty fine kale chips flavored with various things and it's very popular.
3. Provel Cheese. This is a weird one after being so omnipresent for so many years.
4. Brown Booze... or whiskey... to us wine and beer drinkers.
The rest of the year's food trends are here and include more than just actual food but food service etc.
I have to chuckle at the "spit roasted pig's tail" idea. Didn't Laura say in Little House in the Big Woods that roasting the pig's tail was the best part of butchering? That and getting the pig's bladder to play with as a ball.
Posted by: Sharon Philp | January 17, 2013 at 07:53 AM
I remember the pig bladder/ball but not the roasted tail.
Posted by: Diane Meyer | January 17, 2013 at 09:07 AM
I miss provel, don't think you can buy it outside of St. Louis.
Posted by: Rand | January 17, 2013 at 05:07 PM
Rand, the thing about Provel is, if you cook with it at home, like say as a topping for lasagna or some such, your house smells like an Italian restaurant. On Diners Drive-ins and Dives recently a restaurant owner made a point of saying he'd brought in Provel because it was so popular with some of his St. Louis transplants.
Posted by: Diane Meyer | January 18, 2013 at 07:18 AM
Rand, you can get provel by going to the vivano's Italian grocery website. They ship to anywhere in the world.
http://www.shopviviano.com/categories/Cheeses/
Posted by: Diane Meyer | January 18, 2013 at 08:49 AM