What's Your Favorite Trendy Ingredient of 2008?

December 12, 2008

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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31 Comments

mtiger 4 years 22 weeks

Bacon isn't a trend, but I picked it because I love it! Bacon can go into everything!

gingrlj 4 years 22 weeks

I picked ginger since I'm finding ways to add the crystallized version in my baking. Could have been a tie with pomegranates.

Giasbash6260 4 years 22 weeks

Bacon is not new.... I LOVE BLACK COD!!!

Just Oh 4 years 22 weeks

Gotta be pork belly. Michael Ruhlman's pork belly caesar salad still rules!!!

JaimeLeah526 4 years 22 weeks

I love Bacon. Mmmmm.

Spectra 4 years 22 weeks

I'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.

0037sammie 4 years 22 weeks

Bacon = Fatness. Pomegranate all the way, baby!

soul bypass 4 years 22 weeks

MMMMMMM, BACON!!

le romantique 4 years 22 weeks

Pomegranate 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.

chiefdishwasher 4 years 22 weeks

BACON wrapped dogs. What a trend!

w 4 years 22 weeks

bacon 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!

NatashaAlexis 4 years 22 weeks

I love bacon, but sorry I don't feel that it is a trend food. So, I said Pomegranate Yum!

Antioxidant 4 years 22 weeks

Tea! Because I love the stuff.

Gossamer 4 years 22 weeks

pomegranate!!!! but then again being Arab, i eat it all the time even before it was trendy. We buy it by the box loads.

ohbaby7 4 years 22 weeks

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacon!

Jude C 4 years 22 weeks

My mom's got a longstanding tradition of making me stewed pork belly whenever I come home to visit. It's so delicious.

marie-lee 4 years 22 weeks

I picked pomegranate but pork belly would be my second choice...seems to me, they've both been mentioned everywhere I look this past year.

Jude C 4 years 22 weeks

Bacon and pork belly (same thing, anyway, pretty much).

Misalady 4 years 22 weeks

I really liked the pomegranate trend, but how can a girl not LOVE bacon? Bacon it is. Mmm... bacon.

zacatecanita 4 years 22 weeks

I 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.

KadBunny 4 years 22 weeks

In the words of the beggin dog: BEGGIN'!! :D

bluepuppybites 4 years 22 weeks

I 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.

soapbox 4 years 22 weeks

I 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!

krae85 4 years 22 weeks

I LOVE Pomegranate - It's delicious!