The ranking of avant-garde foods of the moment reads like a 18th-century shepherd’s grocery list: oats, cheese curds, and sourdough bread.
That’s according to this year’s Google Food Trends report, for which the internet company compiles data on search queries and looks for seasonally adjusted patterns.
The report makes for interesting perusal, especially for those in the restaurant or Instagram-preening business. But it doesn’t say much about whether tastes are moving in any given direction. American food choices continue to be schizophrenic: We love carbs, we fear carbs. We want nontraditional pork recipes along with desserts our great-aunts would recognize, like bundt cakes.
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