With Covid limiting international travel in 2021, cooks in the United States explored regionalAmerican food. Nene, a South Korean-based fried chicken chain just starting to move into NorthAmerica, has even named a sauce spicy sauce. In 2022, regional foods from India will get a lotof attention, with deep dives into dishes from Gujarat, Kerala, Kashmir, Tamil Nadu, and theAwadh area. (Kudos to those professional prognosticators who nailed the mainstream rise ofquesabirria, soufflé pancakes, delivery-only restaurants, and CBD in recent years. Last year atthis time, optimistic trend forecasters predicted that the cork would burst from the bottle bysummer./The year is starting with a surge of a highly contagious variant of Covid-19 that is onlyadding to the economic uncertainty. With that in mind, here are some potential developments, bigand small, that could define how we eat in the new year, based on a review of dozens of trendreports and interviews with food company executives, global market researchers, and others whomake it their business to scour the landscape for what's next. Meat grown in laboratories fromanimal cells is on its way to winning federal approval as soon as the end of 2022, and chicken
