Food in 2030

Food in 2030 will taste good and be both more global and more local than it is now. I think you'll see more focus on sustainable diets and local ingredients, but also more fusion cuisines and a lot of importing of "exotic" foods. There won't be much left that is exotic, though, because of the widespread shift even in fast food to global cuisine (this is already happening--witness the chipotle explosion). What will be really exotic are things we mostly won't touch now, like insects and foods that are eaten in Asia but now in the US. All the stuff you see in Asian open markets will drift westernward. We'll see a huge increase in lab-created food and I think there will be problems accepting that and getting it tested to make sure it's safe, but ultimately, it will be ok and allow us to solve many of the problems of food shortage in the world. Although there are many obese in the world, I think that one of the reasons it's deemed a crisis now is that the power that be want us to eat less so there's more to go around. We'll continue the trend in packaging things in smaller portions with flavorful seasonings and exotic names and excessive packaging...but I'm not sure that will continue in 2030. There may be entirely different delivery systems for food than the packaging, the supermarket, etc. that we see now.