Here come the trendy end-of-year lists: Epicurious makes its forecasts

Dec. 1, 2009 2:13 PM PT

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Looking back and looking ahead. Must be December. The Epicurious website has come up with its predictions for 2010 trends. Fried chicken will be big, and burgers will move to the back burner, Epicurious says. Also ready to move to the spotlight: lamb, homemade beer and potluck dinners, as well as the profession of butchering. There’s more.

In case you’re keeping score, among the Epicurious predictions for 2009: the rise of Peruvian food, noodle bars and smoked food.

-- Mary MacVean

Daily Dish

Mary MacVean

Mary MacVean is the former Mind & Body editor at the Los Angeles Times. She’s a runner and a cook, and has worked at The Times as morning assignment editor, web liaison, food writer and copy editor. She was a national editor and writer focusing on food at the Associated Press and a features editor and a columnist in Moscow, where she also ran a children’s cooking school. She left The Times in 2015.

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