Wasn't the term "food adventurer" floating around for awhile? To me, that is the best descriptor for an LTH-er. It certainly feels like an adventure every time I hop into Cathy2's car!

eatchicago wrote:I think, for the most part, the word "foodie" is used to mean, "a person who goes to all the hot, new, expensive restaurants and talks about them a lot".

See, in my circle (which is mostly non-foodie), the term doesn't carry any sort of implication that you go to expensive restaurants. A foodie is more likely to be the guy who knows the hole-in-wall down the street that has the best tacos al pastor because he's gone to every friggin hole-in-the-wall looking for the best tacos al pastor. A foodie can also be somebody who doesn't even go to a lot of restaurants, but cooks a lot and cares very much about what goes into his food and has that refined, analytical sense of taste and obsession. There are plenty of Food Network "foodies" out there that probably don't eat out a lot. Heck, I only eat out maybe twice a week, and visit new restaurants once every month or so. "Food geek" or "food nerd" pretty much accurately convey what "foodie" means in my circle.

Yep, food nerd is my term of choice.

I sometimes use "food geek" which offers the same connotations as "music geek" to my ear. And either term can fall prey to implications of dilletantism. "Foodie" is just too infantile and trendy.

I do recall that the contemporary "foodie" of the early-mid 80's was the popular deployment of the perfectly-fine appellation, "gourmet." Suddenly everyone serving dinner parties chilled avocado soup, canapes, and salmon steaks was a "gourmet."

...particularly that chilled avocado soup part: I have a horrific sense memory of being the sole child at a shindig thrown by a "gourmet" girlfriend of my father's...being served pale green blah...told it was soup...and insisting(after gagging a spoonful of it down) that soup wasn't soup unless it was hot! Maybe her "soup" was just bad.

Josephine wrote:Wasn't the term "food adventurer" floating around for awhile? To me, that is the best descriptor for an LTH-er. It certainly feels like an adventure every time I hop into Cathy2's car!

I have a very well trained car! It's been known to park all by itself in front of interesting food locations.

Food Adventurer! I will adopt that one!

Regards,

so.... the term ''foodie' is ss-so 'rachel ray'???

an-and 'yummo' ain't a factor?

c'mon kids... variations of the ol' schoolyard retort of "i know you are - but what am i"...

got me reaching for a cookie.


the implied, if not clearly stated, question was...

what motivates, a select few, obsessions' towards food?

jellobee wrote:the implied, if not clearly stated, question was...

what motivates, a select few, obsessions' towards food?

briefly discussed here:

http://www.lthforum.com/bb/viewtopic.ph ... 883cba1247

and often discussed in the course of things here:

http://www.lthforum.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=1086