Ditto, ditto, ditto
October 7th, 2008 by Cliff Bostock in Food mediaAtlanta Cuisine, the monthly tabloid published by AtlantaCuisine.com, will publish its first “readers’ choice” issue this month. In the September issue, publisher Tom Maicon cited his own choice for most annoying food trend:
Let’s see … most annoying food trend? Last year was easily cupcakes. But this year the most annoying food trend to me is the whole southern farm-to-table thing. Don’t think for a big-city minute that it’s the farm-to-table part of this trend that grates my last nerve — I can respect a freshly plucked vegetable just as much as the next guy — but it’s the over-used southern part of this trend that rubs me the wrong way. I mean…do we really need another southern farm-to-table concept?
For the remainder of this year and next I’ll be on the lookout for chefs who aren’t sheeople too….chefs who are willing to choose that path less taken. I’m looking for chefs like Hector Santiago of Pura Vida and Lamar Thomas of East West Bistro in Athens, Ga. who aren’t afraid to take local ingredients and do interesting things with them, rather than just mindlessly serve the awaiting public another tiresome deviled egg.
I eat to expand the mind as much, if not more, than to fill my belly. I want well-thought flavors, textures, and temperatures. I want to eat something that isn’t being overdone everywhere else in town. I want bold ethnic flavors with my so-called farm-to-table ingredients. Wouldn’t that be cool?
You can read the entire column by downloading the PDF file of the September issue on Atlanta Cuisine’s site.
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