Serious Eats - seriouseats.com

OK, I get it; she's a comedian. Ha Ha.

"I once tried to make dining plans with a foodie friend and it took over ninety minutes to agree on a place that met all of her qualifications for ambiance, cuisine, and service. You would have thought we were negotiating Israeli borders."

the friend that she describes is not a foodie. she is a douchebag.
And how often you are judged by the company you keep.....

"the friend that she describes is not a foodie. she is a douchebag.
And how often you are judged by the company you keep....."

oh my dear jd, i don't think it could be put any better-lol!

Very heated article! Good Find z911empire,
I especially love this part:

"...I’m sick of the foodies who need every morsel that goes into their mouth to be a Picasso painting, a Giacometti sculpture, a Proust novel, evoking the world with each crumb. Foodies who need everything to be caramelized, sauteed in a blabla reduction, nested in a bed of shredded whatevers, served with a mushroom top hat and a julienne of leeks that have been knitted into a sequined scarf."

..awesome. Another "foodie definition" debate. haha

Most of the foodies I know, myself included, aren't like the ones she describes (or exaggerates). They're there for the food - the ambiance and all that other stuff only really matters to gourmets. What's wrong with expecting the food to taste good when you go out to eat? If I wanted to eat bad food, I'd stay at home and cook it myself.

Blah blah blah talk about reaching for things to write about. What next your whotes not white enough? Static kling? zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

it might be funny to some degree.. but i think it can also cause offense to foodies who arent as described there. just people who love food, good food, food on its own.. what makes it interesting and all that stuff. the restaurant stuff and ambience etc just add to the experience.. although, there some people i know to be as described.. but that a rather rare few.. i think.. but im definitely sure im not that kind of foodie.

Thanks BangieB! I was afraid I'd be tarred, feathered, skewered, grilled and masticated before being spit out.

I was offended by some of the nasty retorts on the site's comment section - especially those putting down my favorite website, Serious Eats. Seems like somebody has a personal grudge? .

The article was pretty funny. A little absurd but for anyone who was offended, it may have been a little close to home.

The irony for people here is the serious eats blog spends more time discussing hamburgers and pizza than most other food dishes...

I’m sick of the foodies who need every morsel that goes into their mouth to be a Picasso painting, a Giacometti sculpture, a Proust novel...

Yeah - like when I lick Nutella off a spoon.
That qualifies as a morsel.
I qualify as a foodie.
Hardly complicated stuff.

Don't get me wrong, there are times I expect every forkful to be downright orgasmic, like when I go to One If By LandTIBS or Peter Luger's but those restaurants charge top dollar and that expectation is not outlandish.

So if Ms. Klein waxes poetic about a particular meal, is she not a foodie? Perhaps a Temporary Foodie? A Wannabe Foodie? A poser? (I think that's the one.)

I have no idea who that woman is talking about .. but, it isn't me. I can decide in seconds what restaurant to go to ...

I want every bite to be better than the last. I'm realistic enough to know that this isn't going to happen if my next bite is at McD's.

AND ... the only reduction I'm working on right now is my KC-style BBQ sauce on pork ribs. Trying to perfect that combination.

Oh please, "born with a passion for food", I think that's the sort of thing that earns the ire of others.

I found her comments amusing because foodies, by and large are either snobs, or simply pretentious and largely ignorant. One of my all time favorite foodie blog rants that garnered the most laughs from friends and co-workers was one where the foodie in question, he or she considered him/herselvf an urban farmer/guerilla activist, and was whinging on about how it occured to him/her, while sitting at an interesection how wasteful it was for roadside/curbs not to be used for guerilla food gardening.

I still remember my jaw dropping after reading his/her screed. Apparently this foodie, and his many commenters (it might actually have been here on seriouseats.com) all thought his idea sound. Apparently these types who claim to understand the importance of healthy, not contaminated food, are incapable of making the mental leap in understanding that when one grows food at the immediate roadside, said food is contaminated by car and truck exhaust and whatever might spill out of cars in the case of an accident, etc.. A co-worker relayed to me about a guy she knows at college, who makes a habit of scavenging for natural foods on campus lawns, despite the fact that the lawn areas are sprayed regularly with pesticides and goodness knows what else, and the little flags that dot the lawns advertise that fact.

It's not hard to figure out that so much of what goes on in the foodie "movement" is at the shallow surface level preening. Reading foodie blogs is like watching a wave at a baseball game, each blogger in succession posts the same recipe, or a slight variation on the same theme within days of each other. What at first seemed neat and interesting is now a farce. Half the time I read people trolling for others to share recipes for one food item or another, and within few days to a week, suddenly that food item makes the rounds.

You all have pretty much run this into the ground.