The Menu: predictions for the food world in 2022
Cork is currently surfing a wave of creativity, talent and innovation in the kitchen.
This first column of January is usually when Mystic Menu takes out his edible crystal ball to predict the future of the food world for the year ahead, an increasingly challenging task as Covid still stalks the globe, continuing to play especial havoc with the hospitality sector.
Last January, he predicted that the overwhelming response to Covid from the general public, who flocked in their droves to support premium Irish food producers, especially those small scale producers embedded in our local communities, would increasingly become a lifetime shopping habit for Irish food consumers, and he has seen nothing in the last 12 months to contradict this notion.
