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Trends chefs want to disappear in 2018

What are you sick of? Here are the trends FSD's Chefs’ Council members wish would go away, including kale, fast food, pumpkin spice, healthy desserts and more.

Patricia Cobe, Senior Editor

October 15, 2017

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Here are the trends FSD's Chefs’ Council members wish would go away.

  • Kale

  • Gluten-free

  • Sriracha

  • Chipotle

  • Microgreens on everything

  • Sous vide cooking

  • Aversion to bread

  • Healthy desserts

  • Vegan diets

  • Lies about local sourcing/organic food

  • Fast food

  • Cupcakes

  • Pumpkin spice

  • Fat-free or low-fat

  • Meatless Mondays

  • Bread cones

  • Rigid child nutrition guidelines

  • Bacon on everything

  • Cajun

  • Doughnuts with over-the-top toppings

  • Oversized portions

  • Fried foods

  • Pinterest

About the Author

Patricia Cobe

Senior Editor

Pat plans and executes the menu sections of Restaurant Business and FoodService Director, covering food and beverage trends, Menu R&D, profiles of chefs and restaurateurs and Technomic research. She also contributes to the digital content of both RB and FSD and is editor of two weekly e-newsletters, Recipe Report and On the Menu. Pat’s weekly podcast, MenuFeed, covers a wide range of menu topics through interviews with chefs and operators.

Pat came to Winsight from Hearst, where she was an executive editor. She is the co-author of the Mompreneurs series of books as well as two cookbooks. She graduated from Cornell University and earned a Masters in Journalism from Boston University. She is active in several professional organizations, including Les Dames d’Escoffier and the International Foodservice Editorial Council (IFEC), and serves as a judge for the James Beard Media Awards.

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