To celebrate our first, we’re planning on doing what all one-year-olds do on their birthdays: We’ll clap, laugh, cry, then laugh again; we’ll smear some cake on ourselves, then make a wish and blow out the candles. (And then we’ll fall asleep.) Here are a few of our editors’ food-related hopes and dreams—starting with the admittedly light and ending with the serious.
Ringside seats for a Celebrity Deathmatch–style face-off between Paula Deen and Anthony Bourdain. Frank Bruni can bring the Parmesan Pepper Popcorn.
An In-N-Out Burger or Shake Shack replaces every McDonald’s.
Über-testosteroned, pierced-and-tattooed chefs go the way of clichéd truffle oil, to be supplanted by kinder, wiser Julia Child and Michael Pollan types.
Composting bins become as ubiquitous as refrigerators.
Office vending machines are filled with high-end treats like Vosges Haut-Chocolat’s Bapchi’s Caramel Toffee Exotic Candy Bars.
Taking inspiration from a Chef Sleeve–encased iPad, wipeable, splatter-proof cookbooks.
Home economics starts in kindergarten and becomes part of the official K–12 curriculum; every student is required to read Chew on This and Fast Food Nation.
All animals raised for consumption are treated humanely.
An end to food deserts, thanks to community gardens, rooftop farms, Edible Schoolyards, and initiatives like the new Food Corps program, so that people can better feed themselves, eat healthier, and make the planet more green.
Famine relief and safe passage of international aid for millions in the Horn of Africa facing starvation, as well as relief for the 49 million Americans suffering from hunger, 16 million of which are children—something Feeding America battles every day.
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