Which brings us to Korean food, which trends American and beefy, barbecued and bold.
Blogs are another great resource for finding out which trends are coming through both in the UK and internationally.
Concern about global warming has increased since last year in 11 of the 20 countries for which trends are available, Pew found.
What the Eckos of the world cannot combat is the manner in which trends often emerge organically and unpredictably from the street.
This is an age, after all, in which trends, whether in fashion or painting, tend to mutate before they can be labeled.
It is situated near the tip of an 11-mile- (18-km) long projection into the South China Sea, which trends southwest and partially encloses Ganh Rai Bay.
Most of Spain comprises a large plateau (the Meseta Central) divided by a mountain range, the Central Sierra (Sistema Central), which trends west-southwest to east-northeast.
This leads on to a discussion about the way the internet – from services like Pinterest, Tumblr and Instagram to street-fashion and coolhunting blogs – are vastly increasing the speed at which trends and culture zips across the world.
That was two days before the first outfit appeared on a runway, which, even with the blink-and-you'll-miss-it speed at which trends rise and fall these days, seems a little premature.
In 2000, Malcolm Gladwell wrote The Tipping Point, detailing the way in which trends are passed on from one person to another, reaching a crucial point - the tipping point - at which the trend becomes widespread.
The massif, which trends northwest-southeast, is isolated from its 8,050 8,500-foot (2,455–2,590-metre) sister peaks by the Ngum River on the west and the Ngiap (Nhiêp) River on the east.
