Much like fashion or beauty, the epicurean world ebbs and flows. Certain ingredients or techniques fade away into obscurity while others suddenly come to the culinary forefront.
This year it was all about the pig — using the whole thing, from snout to tail. Exotic berries from goji to acai were all the rage. Ingredients with health benefits, such as antioxidant-rich fruits, continued to gain momentum. Which of these items do think is the Best of 2008?
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To mark bacon as "trendy" is a little short-sighted. Bacon is eternal.
1What shoneyjoe said. But I picked it anyway, because how could I not?
2Bacon is ALWAYS in!
3Bacon is fabulous!!!
4Agreed Bacon is a classic!
5who would want to say that offal is their choice? that's just not appetizing - even if i don't eat that stuff. anyway, i chose pomigranate since that's one that i've used before and it's not too bad.
6Bacon has always been around...it's only recently that there is Pomegranate flavored everythinggggg
7I LOVE Pomegranate - It's delicious!
8I went for the black cod, because to me, ginger, bacon (though I don't eat bacon), tea, pork belly and pomegranate are classics. Besides, black cod is one of my all time favorites!
9I have a hard time stomaching the bacon trend. No offense to anyone who likes bacon, it's just the way it's being used sounds so gross to me.
10In the words of the beggin dog: BEGGIN'!!
11I love Pomegranate! I like to eat them alone or with smoothies even the guacamole recipe looked goos..even though it takes me forever to de-seed it.
12I really liked the pomegranate trend, but how can a girl not LOVE bacon? Bacon it is. Mmm... bacon.
13Bacon and pork belly (same thing, anyway, pretty much).
14I picked pomegranate but pork belly would be my second choice...seems to me, they've both been mentioned everywhere I look this past year.
15My mom's got a longstanding tradition of making me stewed pork belly whenever I come home to visit. It's so delicious.
16Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacon!
17pomegranate!!!! but then again being Arab, i eat it all the time even before it was trendy. We buy it by the box loads.
18Tea! Because I love the stuff.
19I love bacon, but sorry I don't feel that it is a trend food. So, I said Pomegranate Yum!
20bacon ftw. even though i don't consider it trendy either. then i scrolled down and saw pork belly, and since technically pork belly makes bacon, i decided to choose that instead. one for the darkhorse!
21BACON wrapped dogs. What a trend!
22Pomegranate is the BIGGEST food trend of 2008... i say acai is 2009's big thing though. Rock Star energy drinks has a pomegrante flavor... 'nuff said.
23MMMMMMM, BACON!!
24Bacon = Fatness. Pomegranate all the way, baby!
25I'm going with pomegranates because I absolutely LOVE those things. And it's always good to eat more antioxidants, so that's another plus to eating them.
26I love Bacon. Mmmmm.
27Gotta be pork belly. Michael Ruhlman's pork belly caesar salad still rules!!!
28Bacon is not new.... I LOVE BLACK COD!!!
29I picked ginger since I'm finding ways to add the crystallized version in my baking. Could have been a tie with pomegranates.
30Bacon isn't a trend, but I picked it because I love it! Bacon can go into everything!
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