Ask anyone who works in restaurants and they'll tell you that food trends are largely unpredictable. At this time of writing, fried chicken and Caesar salads are decidedly in while avocado toast and ramen burgers are old news. As the meteoric rise of some of these dishes attest, the faddish nature of food has been supercharged by social media.
That being said, dishes have been coming in and out of fashion for as long as restaurants have been operating — as the following 12 old-school dishes prove. There is hope that some of these excellent, albeit dated, dishes will return to the spotlight as restaurants across the world revert to classics in order to appease customers. In an interview with Condé Nast Traveller , Simon Attridge, Culinary Director at Claridge's in London, said, "It's been a tough couple of years.
So nostalgia is coming back because it drives happy memories of excitement, of a more relaxed, seemingly problem-free time." While nostalgia won't be enough to bring all the dishes mentioned in this article back to prominence, there are more than a few that, with a subtle makeover, would not look out of place on modern menus. 1.
Duck à l'orange There are several theories as to how and where duck à l'orange was invented. All agree that the base ideology of the dish — pairing roasted meat with cooked fruit — comes from the Middle East. Most, but not all, also concede that the dish was brought to France by the Italian Catherine de Medici during the 1530s.
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