HERE ARE THE WINNERS OF THE FAVORFLAV FOOD TOP 100

Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the food lovers of online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat and what to cook. Today they announce the absolute food top 100 of our country.

Because corona has left an absurdly large mark on this year, we specifically looked at who stood out in terms of corona. Which people, products, and services were the most remarkable and ludicrous? Who managed to shine despite, no, precisely thanks to corona? Who or what captured the current zeitgeist so well and brought a smile to our and so many other faces?

The six major winners of this special Corona Edition are Mara Grimm, Jaimie van Heije, Loetje, Brabantsche Worstenbroodjes, PAINDEMIE, and Joris Bijdendijk. All six have made a proven contribution this crazy corona year when it comes to enriching the food culture and food awareness in the Netherlands.

The winners
Category Corona Cookbook: How do you eat a little tasty and especially affordable in times of corona? There you have the simple but effective idea behind the website CRISIS KOKEN, which food journalist Mara Grimm immediately launched after the announced lockdown. Chefs shared their favorite low-budget dish that everyone can make at home for really very little money. The recipes were bundled in the book CRISIS KOKEN, published independently, and €2.50 from each sold copy is donated to the Food Bank. Meanwhile, the book is in its third print and has raised over €30,000 for the Food Bank, a fantastic and effective initiative. The cookbook hit of 2020.

Category Corona Cooking Class: Cooking at home at a high level accelerated in 2020. Following the world-famous chef Massimo Bottura, who made the Instagram livestream Kitchen Quarantine every day, our Dutch (star) chefs also started cooking online. One of the most fun online cooking shows was the series by chef Jaimie van Heije who kept it nice and simple, unlike the complicated dishes he makes in his namesake restaurant. For Instagram, he cooked daily dishes made from products that he still saw lying on the supermarket shelf after the massive hoarding. It didn't generate money, but it did receive incredibly many enthusiastic responses from home cooks. And more than six million views per week.

Category Corona Delivery/Takeaway: Restaurant Loetje also more than earned a spot on this winners list. The question of how to provide your guests with their favorite steak despite corona when your restaurant is closed was answered with the Loetje Drive In. The pilot was such a success that it was soon expanded to multiple locations throughout the Netherlands.

Category Corona Foodbox: Keilekker Brabantsche Worstenbroodjes also catered to the meaty corona need with its ludicrous Brabantsche worstenbroodjes do-it-yourself package. This way, all of the Netherlands could still enjoy the ultimate sausage rolls without having to travel south. A resounding success: more than 20,000 packages have now been sent. Fun: there is also a vegan variant.

Category Corona Product: How resilient and resourceful the hospitality industry is, was also evident during the second closure of the hospitality sector. Chef Guillaume de Beer of The Breda Group had to close the tents (Maris Piper, Guts, and BREDA) again and developed in restaurant Maris Piper PAINDEMIE: a delicious takeaway sandwich named after the famous French bread Pain de Mie. By far the corona product of the year.

Overall Corona Winner: The star chef with striking collaborations that no one could ignore in recent times: Joris Bijdendijk (from RIJKS* and Wils). He was one of the first chefs to come up with a restaurant menu for home and also for a beautiful price (€32.50). A huge success, and it didn't stop there. Eating in the church, private dining (and sleeping) in a loft, drive-through Michelin-star box for home with simultaneous live cooking instructions from the chef, eating in a Ferris wheel, the launch of Rijksdaalder (fine dining at home) with chef Dennis Huwaë from Daalder, launch SNERT (finally really tasty pea soup from a can!) with the very first SNERT bar in the Netherlands; Joris did it – and promoted it through enthusiastic photos on social media.

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