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Julie and Julia
Did you know that this cute little movie is all controversial and crap? Apparently some foodie bloggers don’t care for Julie Powell, the woman who blogged and cooked her way through Julia Child’s cookbook. Defamer calls them “prissy,” and I believe I agree. I mean, the worst possible outcome of this movie is that people will be inspired to try cooking gourmet meals at home. HOW DARE THEY. Everyone gets pissed when someone wants to join their little party.
I’m currently doing some writing about the Slow Food movement. It’s an amazing philosophy and certainly something to strive for. However, I can’t say that I haven’t sometimes sat back in my chair and briefly thought it was kind of elitist, too.
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July 30th, 2009 - 09:58
I wish I could be a foodie, but A) I’m not pretentious enough and B) I have two small children, so therefore, I am now the enemy of all that eat out in restaurants… seriously, I read reviews on YELP for restaurants that I enjoy and that I can bring my kids to, and people think they are the worst places ever and people just accept ‘mediocrity’ – I don’t know, I love food as much as the next girl (and I have the extra pounds to prove it) but come on people, it is just food!
Ok my rant is over…
July 30th, 2009 - 10:08
See, I don’t think being a foodie and being pretentious are hand-in-hand. I consider myself somewhat of a foodie in that I enjoy and appreciate good food and try to use quality ingredients and whatnot. But that doesn’t preclude me from drinking cheap wine or indulging in the occasional chain restaurant meal.
July 30th, 2009 - 12:55
I guess I’m a foodie in training – I’ve always liked good food, but I’m just starting to understand what MAKES good food. I am so far from pretentious, though. I still love going to diners, and don’t forget those Cool Ranch Doritos. The Slow Food thing has definitely caught my attention (I think that’s what brought me to your site in the first place), not because of the politics or the elitism, but because it tastes good and makes sense. If it catches on well enough, I think it will become less and less elite. (but right now, a $145 farm to table dinner? That’s even too elite for me!)
July 30th, 2009 - 13:06
Understanding what makes food good is what they call Taste Education in the Slow Food movement, right? I can get behind that.
But yes, it’s expense right now that’s problematic. Slow food cannot feed the planet. Organic farming yields much less per acre than industrialized farming — it’s not economically feasible and could actually lead to further deforestation due to agriculture. The system is broken. :(
July 30th, 2009 - 14:30
Organic farming yields much less per acre than industrialized farming — it’s not economically feasible and could actually lead to further deforestation due to agriculture.
…But, if it were possible to phase some meat out of the daily [American] diet, graze more cows on grass, and then roll many of the fields currently growing feed corn back to small family farms growing actual food, that could extend the reach of organics and make them more available to the average consumer…
Maybe?
Or maybe I should raise the Wee Spawn with the goal of being Secretary of Agriculture in 2032ish, assuming the world doesn’t indeed come to a crashing halt in 2012. ;)
July 30th, 2009 - 15:56
Exactly, brigita, the system is busted. We’re hooked on meat and fast food and don’t even get me started on the corn situation.
Yes, get the Wee Spawn ready to help us all.
July 30th, 2009 - 17:08
I consider myself an ultimate foodie in that I will (and have) spent over $700 on dinner for two at some of the finest restaurants in the world, and I am very critical when I go out to restaurants BUT some of my greatest loves are still a good pepperoni pizza, my mom’s potato kugel and a really good cheeseburger. Being a foodie isn’t about eating only in expensive restaurants, it is about enjoying food made right with good ingredients regardless of what it is. A hot dog can be legendary while a poorly cooked leg of lamb with bad quality lamb can be just awful.
July 30th, 2009 - 17:22
I think what it all boils down to is people are just jealous of other people’s success.
July 30th, 2009 - 18:02
“A hot dog can be legendary while a poorly cooked leg of lamb with bad quality lamb can be just awful.”
Well put.
July 31st, 2009 - 11:19
I heard the founder of Slow Food on NPR a while back. I agree with much of the philosophy, but then something struck me. He was saying eat local, eat native foods, not the globalized cuisine do eat now, and he was talking about how we have co-opted other cultures’ cuisine all over, etc., but then he was asked about Italian, which he is, that uses pasta (from china, originally) and tomatoes (from the Americas) and he said that you have to call it local, regional from a certain time. Basically, the philosophy is pick and choose, about disparaging certain things, and deifying others.
While I still agree with the ideas of less mcdonalds, more actual cooking, I can’t get on that bandwagon fully.