Habemus Foodie: The Foodie Culture has arrived to the masses.
The term foodie is defined by Cambridge advanced learner’s dictionary as follow: “a person who loves food and is very interested in different types of food” (Walter 491). One might consider the dictionary’s explanation of the term fulfilling; however, this new trend conceal far more than what it is stated within the quotation marks. This new cultural trend affects and is affected by several aspects of our society; those aspects may seem initially unrelated from each other, yet they all merge together after being carefully investigated. The aspects taken into analysis are going to be historical, technological and sociological. As Michael Idov in his essay “When Did Young People Start
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Seeking pleasure in food, eating gourmet and experimenting for the palate can be seeing as a pyramidal progression starting from the top, resembling a few individuals, to the bottom, representing the mass. The first know recipes were all made for upper-class individuals usually for royal family members and nobles to be served at royal banquets, the very first known recipes seem to come from Babylonia and they date to circa 1750 B.C. Assuming that the people at court were the only individuals capable of reading this manuscript was written solely for experienced chefs working closely to kings (Okerson). Caste separation as well as general ignorance and poverty among large number of individuals have negatively contributed to the descending of foodie culture upon the crowds for a long period of time. Only relatively recently and still in limited areas of the planet people have access to education and are able to interact freely with one another. This made the foodie culture available to a greater number of people. This trend has passed from kings to bourgeois to everybody in a span of thousands of years; therefore, the sociological impact it has had is rather substantial. Idov presents the final passage from elite to normal people when it states: “An abiding interest in food was something for old people or snobs, like golf or opera.” (Idov). Prior our generation foodie culture was still reserved to wealthy