Beauty is in the pie of the beholder

So by now we've probably eaten enough cupcakes. Well it gives me great pleasure to tell you all that this year is the year of the pie. Savoury or Sweet, pies are going stratospheric. According to an article in the Independent in 2010 AllRecipes.com saw a 20% increase in pie based search. So popular are pies now, that a savoury pie followed by a sweet pie is becoming commonplace.

Andrew Freeman runs a restaurant consultancy in San Francisco. “If I had one trend — one trend — of the year that I could predict, that’s why it’s in the No. 1 position, this would be the trend for pie," he said. "I think that we’re going to make room for pie shops in the next year... I’ll eat pie if I don’t get this one right at the end of the year.”

Because of the internet of course

Last year Orange County saw an explosion in the appearance of gourmet 'Food Trucks'. Thanks to the internet and social networking, patrons could find the whereabouts of their favourite traveling foodstuffs. Food truck districts are now cropping up. It seems as though this could be the next stage of the pop up restaurant. The pop up and pootle around restaurant perhaps. It would appear likely that this trend will spread around the world in 2011.

Add just a dash off testosterone.

In an article from Time in November we saw that single women in  their 20s are comfortably out-earning their male counterparts, and in a recession where traditionally male jobs have been hit, America has seen 1 in 3 women overtake their partner's salary. The result is the man does the cooking.

According to the Food Channel, men are spending three times as much in the kitchen now as they did in the 1970s.