FUTURE OF FOODS
CHEFS PREDICT THE FUTURE OF FOOD Top chefs from around the globe contemplate the question: What is the future of food? B Y A L I C I A WA L K E R
It’s a big question and there is no easy answer.
what is the future of food, was almost ubiquitously “That’s
We put it to some of the world’s best chefs to
a BIG question.” But we were bolstered by the almost
see if their insights into the eating habits of their guests
unanimously easy responses that flowed from these chefs.
can give us an indication of what is happening, and will
Their passionate responses flew from their mouths as fast
happen, in the global food consciousness.
as plates on the pass as they answered a question they
clearly felt strongly and full of hope about the answer to.
The initial reaction from chefs to the question,
WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF FOOD? The first-ever number one winner to come from France was Mirazur at this year’s World’s 50 Best Restaurant Awards. Chef Mauro Colagreco says, “That’s a huge question. I love the future.
[It will be] more local, more
organic. And I think the capacity to change, or method of production over the last 20 years already changed a lot. Unfortunately, we lose the tradition, we lose the nature of how we cook our meals and feed our family. So I think the
Mauro
Colagreco
restaurants need to become like a great mother.”
Illustrious Taiwanese chef André Chiang of Sichuan Moon in Macau and The Bridge in Chengdu says, “In the future, food is probably the last thing that keeps the connections between people. Everything can be replaced by technology, even communications, so I think that
food in the future will be
André
the only thing that still remains as a
Chiang
craft of human beings." 12
