Ditzy Food Yapping
October 4th 2009 - Posted in Food, in the news, wtf?
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I suppose I’m as guilty as anyone else.
No, I take that back, I’m not.
I’ve loved everything to do with food and cooking since I was a young thing (see user pic), but I’d like to think that I’ve never bent anyone’s ear about it, that I haven’t bored anyone to death with minute details of a dish I’ve cooked, or eaten. Or that, to the outsider, all I seem interested in is food.
That’s hard, as someone who is a food writer and has worked in restaurants and done catering. It’s my job to be obsessed with food.
But there’s a line where it becomes obnoxious and ruins the fun for everyone else.
Maybe it’s some kind of early-adopter elitism, the idea that those of us who have been involved in something for a long time know more, do more, deserve more than the newbies. Or maybe I’m just too much of a cool-ass curmudgeon to enjoy someone else’s enthusiasm over discovering something new.
But the keeners (aka “foodies” [said with a derisive sneer], or “foodiots” according to The New York Observer) are ruining it for the rest of us.
