People are maturing from obsessions with the likes of bacon, cronuts and kale to a love of all sorts of dishes and cuisines – and with that expanding repertoire come broader interests in wellness, natural and what makes food taste good. Here’s a snapshot of...
In many ways, Millennial tastes and behaviours foreshadow what's coming in consumer consumption. A new report from The Hartman Group, Outlook on the Millennial Consumer 2014, takes an in-depth look at what they're doing and how food manufacturers and retailers can take part in this...
Consumers used to think of processed foods as helpful around the kitchen. Major shifts in food culture have changed that thinking, so that many people now view processed food as a path to health conditions including obesity, diabetes, behavioural problems and cancer...
Did you know that eating alone has become as normal as eating together? Eating alone is fast becoming the new normal. The Hartman Group’s analysis of how we eat as a culture shows that today a fairly astounding 46% of all adult eating occasions (up...
Influential US market analysts, the Hartman Group, releases an annual trends report. A free one, too. What you won't find within the pages of its Ideas in Food - A Cultural Perspective is a rehashing of tired old culinary trends. Rather it explores the themes...
Research company, The Hartman Group in the US, has spent more than twenty years exploring the mainstream and fringes of food culture. Here is a sampling of 20 [American] trends that, it notes, have influenced food culture in sweet and sour ways....
"Is Food the New Sex?" is the question explored in this brilliant essay by Mary Eberstadt, research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford and consulting editor to the Institution's bimonthly Policy Review.
Trying to understand a curious reversal in today's western culture,...