LIFESTYLE NEWS - People started noticing the rise of bowl-eating in about 2016. The new fad was driven by a focus on more healthy dishes which often consisted of grains, pulses, vegetables, protein, dips and sauces layered and arranged in bowls. Bowl food has become a food category in its own right.
Celebrity chefs were quick on the uptake. Nigella Lawson is a self-confessed bowl addict. She wrote an entire chapter on bowl food in her book Simply Nigella. “For me, ‘bowlfood’ is simply shorthand for food that is simultaneously soothing, bolstering, undemanding and sustaining.”
Jamie Oliver has 15 delicious and healthy one bowl recipes which seem to fall into one of five categories – soups, salads, Asian noodle dishes, Asian rice dishes and cereal based dishes.
People tend to intuitively feel that food in bowls is good for us. Charles Spence, who studies the psychology of food at the University of Oxford, told the website Quartzy that one is likely to rate it as more intensely aromatic than exactly the same food on a plate.
Eating bowl food is a voyage of discovery through the bowl with its interesting variety of healthy ingredients and flavours that are easy to assemble.
