links for 2006-12-30

The Ten Best Food Trends of 2006 at Daily Dish at Epicurious.com [1]

Part of Epicurious.com's year-end feature

(tags: foodpolitics [2] foodbusiness [3] restaurants [4] trends [5])
Bye, bye burgers: Devon's foodie preserve sees off Big Macs [6]

I neglected to post this earlier in the month, but it's another example of a a very local food-oriented community - in this case Tavistock in Devon, England (which I visited earlier) driving out McD's due to lack of business. (thanks Mimi!)

(tags: uk [7] devon [8] tavistock [9] mcdonalds [10] trends [5] foodbusiness [3] foodpolitics [2])
The Ten Worst Food Trends of 2006 at Daily Dish at Epicurious.com [11]

..and the worst trends of course. Some items appear on both lists, sort of.

(tags: foodpolitics [2] restaurants [4] trends [5] foodbusiness [3])
Food and Drink Predictions for 2007 at Daily Dish at Epicurious.com [12]

...and of course, the predictions.

(tags: foodpolitics [2] foodbusiness [3] trends [5] 2007 [13])

Links:
[1] http://www.epicurious.com/features/news/dailydish/122606
[2] http://del.icio.us/justhungry/foodpolitics
[3] http://del.icio.us/justhungry/foodbusiness
[4] http://del.icio.us/justhungry/restaurants
[5] http://del.icio.us/justhungry/trends
[6] http://www.guardian.co.uk/food/Story/0,,1966029,00.html
[7] http://del.icio.us/justhungry/uk
[8] http://del.icio.us/justhungry/devon
[9] http://del.icio.us/justhungry/tavistock
[10] http://del.icio.us/justhungry/mcdonalds
[11] http://www.epicurious.com/features/news/dailydish/122706
[12] http://www.epicurious.com/features/news/dailydish/122806
[13] http://del.icio.us/justhungry/2007