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Cooking Trends at Home Food Categories at Home

A proliferation of food and travel shows on that the home cook of 2019 will be most With the ongoing growth in food retail products will be clearly visible in our
television and streaming services, food porn inspired by Television and Video shows that offers deeper immersion, greater kitchen pantry this year. This revival
on social media platforms like YouTube and (46%) and driven by a sense of nostalgia variety, dependable storage and better would be spearheaded by traditional
Instagram, along with easier access to tools, for rediscovering family and community logistics that promises fresher and faster cooking mediums (62%) replacing the
techniques, information and ingredients, cuisine (45%). They also felt that curiosity, food delivery, today’s home cooks are generic vegetable and international
is encouraging home cooks to experiment and a sense of culinary adventure, will lead to spoilt for choice of ingredients they can oils; regional seeds and grains (52%),
with dishes beyond their traditional more experiments with cuisines other than play with in their home kitchens. The in lieu of regular staples like wheat and
boundaries. Our expert panel believes their own (39%) at home. theme of going local was the strongest rice; and home-grown produce from
here, and our experts unanimously kitchen and/or window gardens (47%)
predicted our preference for traditional, to complement meals with ultra-fresh
regional, home-grown, and indigenous vegetables and herbs.
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Cooking dishes inspired by TV shows / Youtube 46%

Rediscovering roots by cooking from family, Community cuisines 45%
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Experimenting with cuisines other than one's own 39%
Traditional Indian cooking mediums (eg. Ghee, Coconut, Mustard, Peanut, etc.) 62%
Shift to healthier cooking methods 37%
Regional seeds & grains (eg. Millets, Local rice and wheat varieties) 52%
Cooking dishes inspired from travel 36%
Home-grown produce from kitchen and /or window gardens 47%

Indigenous varieties of fruits & vegetables
(eg. Local, foraged / wild...) 35%
Because food now Shows like Masterchef etc have Locally grown international fruits & vegetables (eg. 32%
occupies a large part of inspired people to cook as and when Avacado, Passion...
our imagination and cuts they have time. And today there is
across social and economic a tsunami of content online that has
strata. The curiosity to people educating themselves better
know is high as well as and being inspired! Value and Virtue. As we learn more about why indigenous foods
a pride in one's own roots Chef Sadaf Hussain are good for us, we will make a more conscious effort to include
and traditions is growing. them in our home cooking. Nutritionists sharing information about
the functional and medicinal values of food are growing popularity
thanks to which small food retailers are finding reason to deal in cold
pressed seed oils and indigenous or domesticated farm produce.
Saee Koranne Khandekar

Locally produced International vegetables are big these days,
Pritha Sen
but at the cost of forgetting our own millets and indigenous
ingredients. As chefs it is one’s duty to connect with local
producers and farmers, interact with them, get one’s hands
dirty once in a while. Know where our produce is coming from
TV food and cooking and what we are putting on the table. To bring about change
shows offer creative new one needs to create that demand and supply. Chef Michael Swamy
ideas and novelty to
home cooks. It gets them
appreciation from family
and friends.

Ruchi Shrivastava