(Warning: rough language ahead! Turn back at this intersection if the red light is not enough!)
I hate foodies. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so I started montrealfood.com. Big fucking deal. These clowns, they're all over the Food Network (which I once loved, but now eye with the same fascination as watching a cockroach trying to hide).
Foodies. Foodie porn. Who knew that there was a species called "Foodies?" But there is. These pretentious assholes who seem to have more money than they can ever call home, they strut about telling everyone else what "good food" is all about.
Fuck you, Gael Greene! Fuck you, Ruth Reichl! Fuck you, Gordon Ramsay! Fuck you, Daniel Boulud! Even, and I hesitate to say it, Fuck you, Anthony Bourdain!
Go get yourself a fucking hot dog or a pizza slice and STOP POLLUTING MY MINDSPACE with your food-porn nonsense. Christ alive, these people aren't artists who paint lovely pictures -- they're conmen (and women) who want to persuade you that their bizarre concoctions and weird food extravaganzas are worth paying attention to.
Fucking get a fucking life. Have yourself a fucking hot dog. Hold the ketchup.
Yeah yeah yeah, I know, but what do I REALLY think?
I don't hate those celeb "foodies" who have earned their chops by being cooks, chefs, or reputable reviewers. They're just doing what comes naturally (making more money by jumping on the TV/book-deal wagon).
ReplyDeleteThe ones I hate are the self-declared foodies who blog endlessly about their cooking or their collection of cookbooks or their trips to the goddam market. Enough already! It's over!
You might think I hate myself according to that description, but I would counter that I have never called myself a "foodie" (and have frequently shouted "do not call me a foodie!") I'm just a guy who started blogging about basic food stuff way back when hardly anyone else was doing it (2002 or so).
Once it became an overdone trend I backed away. Lost interest. (But I still like to cook and eat -- just don't call me a goddam foodie!)
HEAR HEAR!
ReplyDeleteFinally, someone with some sense. Anyone who calls themselves a foodie is automatically NOT into food, they're into bragging about their food adventures, which is sheer tedium to anyone who has to listen.
I love blogging about my little experiments but basically it's just to have a repository of recipes that are not on my computer. You wouldn't believe how many times I've come to this blog to get a recipe I once took the trouble to post but have long forgotten.
And as far as restaurants go, or should I say, come and go, these days there are so many amateur food critics that I see no need for me to pitch in, which was the original premise for montrealfood.
And don't get me started with "Fine Dining" critics. There's a wall for them to get lined up against.
But my argument is not agaist the celebrity chef per se; it's against the cult of Foodieism.
Hey, people, it's just food.