Food Predictions 2025: NYT's Kim Severson Speaks Out

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

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🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Kim Severson of the New York Times predicts the biggest food trends of 2025—from dirty sodas and whiskey ketchup to the new supermarket and the ingredient of the year. Also up this week, we get a lesson in southern Thai cooking from Nok Suntaranon, we make Bread Dumplings in Broth, Adam Gopnik examines what happens when we quit the foods we love, and Christopher Kimball and Sara Moulton answer our first caller questions of 2025.

Get this week’s recipe Canederli in Brodo (Bread Dumplings in Broth) here.

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0:00.0	This is Mo Street Radio from PRX, and I'm your host, Christopher Kimball.
0:09.0	Today we're kicking the year off with our predictions for the biggest food trends right now.
0:13.8	From dirty sodas to vibe eating, plus we reveal the ingredient of the year.
0:18.8	They have what they like to call a health halo, which I guess means if you stand next to it,
0:23.4	you'll be healthy.
0:25.4	What we'll eat in 2025?
0:27.2	That's coming up later in the show.
0:30.1	But first, it's my interview with Noak Suntaranan, winner of the 2023 James Beard Award for Best Chef Mid-Atlantic.
0:39.0	Noak, welcome to Milk Street.
0:40.9	Ka, so ad-a, thank you so much for having me.
0:44.0	I love the fact that you have very strong opinions about your food, and you don't let people run over you.
0:53.9	You say, I love this. Every so often a customer will try to tell me about my food and you don't let people run over you. You say, I love this.
0:55.6	Every so often a customer will try to tell me about my food, they will say, this is not
1:00.3	Thai food or my favorite.
1:03.1	I have been to Thailand.
1:05.5	So people's idea of Thai food, which I understand is very different depending on where you are in Thailand,
1:13.3	is really not very informed most of the time, right?
1:17.0	Yeah, I'm very opinionated and it's not just about food.
1:21.6	It's pretty much about everything in my life.
1:24.6	I'm just like my mother.
1:27.4	For Thai food, you know, to tell you the truth, the food that I
1:32.2	cook, Southern Thai food and my cousin, we grew up together, cook, and she also cooked
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