Postmodern Dining: Contemporary Reflections on Food Trends

While today's consumer is content to enjoy high-quality food in a conventional cultural context, the cutting-edge food folks are working diligently to ensure that our food experiences of the future give the food its proper due and reverence. If eating in the past was about utility and eating in the present is about quality, eating in the future will resemble a form of ritualized worship.

This report from Tinderbox finds the most dominant food trend in our era sets the stage for postmodern dining: the trend towards all things fresh, seasonal and local. And you may just be staring at the future evolution of your own product or retail food experience.