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Cultural Comfort

Popular comfort dishes borrow from cultural flavors and recipes

Implications - Comfort foods central to restaurants and grocery stores are taking on robust cultural flavors. From a consumer standpoint, the inclusion of ethnic culinary concepts favors brands catering to diverse clientele. Additionally, remixed traditional dishes such as Asian or South American-style pizzas capture the attention of shoppers.
Workshop Question - What is one aspect of your product or service that can be tweaked to create a new experience?
Trend Themes
1. Cultural Fusion Dishes - Dishes that mix cuisine cultures to create new tasty options, increasing the level of creativity of food brands.
2. Ethnic Comfort Foods - Cultural comfort foods are becoming more prevalent in restaurants and grocery stores, offering potential to create unique links between cultures and food trends.
3. Unconventional Pizza - Pizza recipes that mix and match ingredients and flavors, providing an opportunity for innovation in the pizza industry.
Industry Implications
1. Food and Beverage - This industry can leverage cultural fusion dishes and ethnic comfort foods to incorporate new flavors and options onto their menus and offer consumers a diverse and diversified offering.
2. Fast Food Chains - By incorporating special menu items that cater to local tastes, chain restaurants can leverage existing traditional dishes and blend them into their product offerings to bring something new to the table.
3. Culinary Training and Education - This industry can take advantage of the unconventional pizza trend by featuring unique pizza recipes and pizza-making techniques in food-related training and personal enrichment courses.
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Pasta Bacon Taco Hybrids
Pasta Bacon Taco Hybrids
These Indulgent Bacon Weave Taco Breaks Calorie-Topping Records
If you’ve ever been desperately hungry for both tacos and macaroni and cheese at the same time, then you’re in luck with the creation of this calorie-loaded meal. This fusion of flavor... MORE
Spicy Asian Pizzas
Spicy Asian Pizzas
Heather Christo's Bahn Mi Pizza Fuses Italian and Asian Cuisine
Loaded with ingredients and flavor, this spicy Asian pizza recipe from Heather Christo offers a new way to enjoy the classic Bahn Mi sandwich. Rather than pressing the ingredients between the slices... MORE
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This Ramen Pot Pie is the Ultimate Comfort Food
The ramen pot pie recipe is a clever combination of two comfort food mainstays. Originally developed as a means to using up a leftover supply of sea urchin, the ramen pot pie combines the... MORE
Quesadilla Pizza Recipes
Quesadilla Pizza Recipes
The Pizzadilla Combines Two Epically Savory Foods in One Skillet
This quesadilla pizza mashup is a truly unbeatable combination of savory goodness. Created by Serious Eats Managing Culinary Director J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, the Pizzadilla is a pizza made on top of a... MORE
Pizza Quesadilla Hybrids
Pizza Quesadilla Hybrids
This Pizza Quesadilla Hybrid was Made by Epic Meal Time's Josh Elkin
If you are with an indecisive friend and you can’t choose between sharing a quesadilla or a pizza, this pizza quesadilla means no more difficult decisions. Shared on Instagram by Epic Meal Time&... MORE
Aussie Spread-Stuffed Crusts
Aussie Spread-Stuffed Crusts
Pizza Hut Australia Will Be Offering a Vegemite Stuffed Pizza Crust
You have probably heard or tried the cheese stuffed pizza crust by now. To change it up Pizza Hut is introducing a vegemite stuffed crust in their Australia locations, following their Doritos chip-... MORE

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