Sweetmood No34 - May 2023

be plant based). Veganism is unstoppable, which also explains the success of pasta, a plant-based food. How and where The tyranny of tasting menus will probably disappear from restaurants. Customers prefer to choose what they eat, especially because the number of people who suffer from food intolerances or prefer not to eat certain dishes is growing. Albert Adrià bears witness to this as he has eliminated it from his new restaurant Enigma in Barcelona. The number of establishments that are halfway between a restaurant and a wine bar will increase. The number of dishes will diminish, so much so that one will not recognize wheat flour. After having earned the Traditional Specialty Guaranteed denomination, the queen of Italian products remains the pizza. The path of Prosecco also seems unstoppable. A truly international trend is the success of vegetarian and vegan diets. If data from various research are analysed, one realizes that the world is becoming “meat free”; groups, apps, restaurants are emerging, even a “vegetarian” Tinder, Grazer (the meatless matchmaker). In the past two years, the number of vegan diets has grown 27 percent, a change that is reflected with the success of plant-based proteins which will reach a global value of 350 billion dollars in the next twenty years (when it is expected that 60 percent of meat will Kaja Reichardt on Unsplash 28 TRENDS

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