Move Over, Pistachio – It’s Pecan Time! The Food Trends Hotlist

Going disconnected (in a bully way)

Intercultural cuisines
From Indo-Chinese and Taiwanese-Tex Mex, to Viet-Cajun and Cape-Malay, brace your tastebuds for culinary cultures colliding successful nan astir delicious ways.

Pecans are IN. Photos: GettyImages

Pecan
Move speech pistachio, this play is each astir butter-pecan ice-cream, pecan pie, pecan dukkah, cinnamon Meshuga, and pecan frosted German cocoa cake.

Postbiotics
Bioactive compounds specified arsenic lactic acerb and butyrate, that are nan end-product of bully germs successful our courage fermenting prebiotic fibre. Could they thief support a patient microbiome?

Cambodian food
Among nan oldest Southeast Asian cuisines, Cambodian nutrient combines freshness pinch aromatic complexity utilizing ingredients specified arsenic kampot pepper, lime leaves, shrimp paste, beatified basil and vinegar (check retired Mamapen successful Soho, London, by cook Kaneda Pen).

Hi-fi Listening bars
Low-lit establishments wherever vinyl records, exquisite mini plates and discerning cocktails travel together successful harmony. See Bar Shrimp successful Manchester aliases The Listening Room astatine MOI successful London.

Malted things
The butterscotch-toffee-toastiness and caramel-nutty-earthiness of malt syrup is enlivening everything from sourdough and cookies, to barbecue glazes and vinaigrettes.

Extreme funkiness
XO sauce, Japanese fermented natto beans, stinky tofu, colatura di alici food garum, Moroccan smen fermented food – adding a heavy funk to your cooking is each nan rage.

Grape
Petimezi Greek grape molasses is nan caller pantry hero; Ravneet Gill’s fabric barroom pinch fregola grape is simply a must-try, stiff “swalty” grapes are each complete TikTok, and behold: nan unironic 2026 revival of balsamic vinegar.

Combi ovens
Ultra-precise, multifunctional appliances that tin oven bake, air-fry, defrost, grill and steam successful one, for illustration Smeg’s retro-chic 10 successful 1 oven.

QQ
The satisfying chewy and bouncy texture associated pinch mochi, tteokbokki, boba pearls and food balls (sometimes referred to arsenic nan “Asian al dente”) is popping up everywhere.

Doner kebabs
From nan viral TikTok “roll and bake” home-cooked version to nan emergence of gourmet Turkish kebab shops, this craveable, basking sauce-laden 1990s icon is back.

Picon
The burnt-orange French liqueur that makes complex, invigorating negronis, aliases tin beryllium mixed pinch blonde beers for a refreshingly bitter Picon Bière shandy. It’s nan 2026 spritz.

Utrecht
The canal-side gourmet destination successful nan Netherlands being heralded arsenic “the understated Amsterdam without nan tourists”, awash pinch innovative restaurants, awesome coffee, frites – and conscionable a Eurostar away.

Going disconnected (in a bad way)

Pistachio
The Dubai cocoa bubble has popped, pinch fewer lurid greenish pistachio products tasting thing for illustration an existent pistachio.

Protein everything
Carbs are unapologetically back, overgarment potatoes are replacing cauliflower rice, and fibremaxxing replaces protein-loading.

Air-fryers
Bulky countertop-hogging appliances that really “bake pinch a fan” much than “fry” are being progressively shunned successful favour of multi-tasking alternatives.

Hot chromatic
After being slathered complete perfectly everything from pizza crusts to truffled cheeses, this ‘swicy’ condiment now feels a small one-note compared to bolder chilli-ferments pinch immoderate crisp bite.

Greek yoghurt ‘cheesecake’
Of course, an full packet of biscuits stuffed into a yoghurt tastes good, but it’s almost arsenic indulgent arsenic a classical baked NYC cracker-crusted cheesecake slice.

CBD
Disguising nan hempy, cut-grass sensation of CBD pinch sweetener and sweeteners is out; mind-relaxing oils that are people delicious (think rosemary, bergamot, clove) are in.

Orange vino snobbery
No 1 wants to walk meal wincing arsenic they imbibe connected an orangish truthful funky it’s unpalatable; besides, Jura “yellow” vin jaune is each nan rage now.

Overprocessed seed oils
Flavourless seed oils pinch low-smoke points are making measurement for tallow, which is amended for frying and roasting, makes crumblier, flakier pastries, and besides tastes delicious.