Sea snails
Alex Atala of Sao Paulo’s D.O.M. says: “Seaweeds and [other] ingredients from the sea we don’t pay attention to – [such as] plankton, sea snail, anemone – will take prominence.”
Venison
Mark LaBrooy of Byron Bay’s Three Blue Ducks thinks wild-harvested ingredients such as deer, a non-indigenous species detrimental to the Australian native environment, will work their way onto menus, as they are “nutrient-dense and all-natural”.
Loose-leaf tea
Henrietta Lovell, London-based founder of Rare Tea Company, is seeing a turnaround in consumer habits, where people are switching from tea bags to loose-leaf tea. “Tea bags create unsustainable waste,” she says, “[but] a teapot can be passed down through generations, flooding your life with pleasure.”
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This article was originally published in the December 2019 issue of SilverKris magazine