But I would never call my accountant a numberie. Someone who loves food can be called a gastronaut (hipster) or a gourmet (classic), or how about food lover…or anything else, for all I care. It diminishes and undervalues the very people it’s meant to applaud and makes the user look foolish for not speaking proper English. “I have very publicly derided the use of the word foodie every time I hear it or read it. Guys and girls can get laid with their IG food photos, though.” Andrew Zimmern This ain’t fucking ‘Control’ by Kendrick or even relevant anywhere outside the small group of journalists that thinks it even matters. “The word foodie don’t mean a goddam thing except to those who are apologizing that they are one.
Read their answers below to find out if the word should finally be retired, or if we’re in too deep to turn back now.įounder and owner of Kogi BBQ Truck, author of L.A. To take stock of where foodie fits into the lexicon today, we enlisted some food writers and chefs to answer a question that’s been plaguing us: What does the word foodie really mean in 2013? And the reality is, it’s buckling under the pressure. One thing’s for certain though: As our food culture has undergone seismic changes in the past few decades-as Food Network has stormed the gates of pop culture and chefs have been transformed into gods-that cute little word has been forced to carry a heavier burden than perhaps it was ever intended to. In England, Paul Levy and Ann Barr coined it in 1981 and codified it in the title of their 1984 book The Official Foodie Handbook, while Gael Greene is credited with popularizing the term stateside through her column in New York magazine, where it was first used on June 2, 1980. The word is weird in that way: Using it as a self-descriptor is likely to win you eye rolls from anyone in earshot, and it’s tough to call other people “foodies” without it sounding like maybe you’re actually dissing them-for being pretentious, for being a bandwagon-hopper, or, oddly, for not being “foodie” enough. In this way, the term is similar to hipster-linguistically lazy, poorly defined to the point of meaning everything and nothing at the same time, and frequently used as shorthand for large swaths of the Brooklyn population.Īccording to etymologist Barry Popik, it may have developed independently on both sides of the pond. Are you a foodie? If you read this site and sites like it with any sort of regularity, it’s likely that someone who knows you has called you a foodie, even if you don’t call yourself one.
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