Future of American food

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: July 11, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

Americans, it seems, want to nibble pasta peanut stir-fry without giving up on their homestyle pot roast and mashed potatoes.

We love eating out but miss home-cooking.

We want something exotic - think fusion cuisines, new combinations of spices and unusual cuts of meat. At the same time, we miss the simple foods we grew up with - macaroni and cheese, meatloaf, fried eggs and sausage.

At the dawn of a new millennium, Americans still want to have their cake and eat it too.

Or so is the view from the front lines of the food industry, according to experts from the American Culinary Federation, ...

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