#Nostalgia 90s food full#

There are two prongs of nostalgia at work here. (I haven’t seen molten chocolate cake yet, but its progenitor Jean-Georges Vongerichten is still going strong.) You may have made a trendy TikTok recipe using Boursin, and Sam Sifton recently encouraged people to make baked brie in his newsletter. Inspired, I’ve since ordered an espresso martini at one restaurant, a goat-cheese salad with sun-dried tomato vinaigrette at another, and multiple restaurants I’ve been eyeing have put desserts like poached pears and chocolate mousse on the menu.

Recently, Timothée Chalamet, born smackdab in the middle of the ’90s, enjoyed espresso martinis with Larry David, creator of Seinfeld, one of the ’90s most beloved sitcoms, at Sant Ambroeus in New York City. That same year, Eater made the case for the espresso martini, as it had already begun its resurgence in Australia, and for a reboot of white chocolate. In 2019, the LA Times wrote about the comeback of sun-dried tomatoes, which once appeared on pesto and focaccia sandwiches or speckled in cream cheese for the entirety of the Clinton era. The ’90s food resurgence has been in the works for a few years.

But the dream of the ’90s is not just alive in clothing It’s back with a vengeance in food, too. On TikTok, they’re just posting footage of high schools in the ’90s as “vibes.” It’s fine, such is the way of aging.

#Nostalgia 90s food full#

The school two blocks from my house is full of skaters in baggy cargo pants, kids with tiny backpacks and crop tops, and, god help me, low-cut jeans. As a child of the ’90s, it is now my turn to watch teenagers and younger adults run wild with the fashions of my youth.