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Clearly Ann Bauer is no foodie - but her well-written outsider's take on the "foodie" culture creates an interesting picture of a group of people whose interests and behaviors are somewhat inscrutable to the rest of us. Foodies are like any group of absorbed fans - Trekkies, Scrapbookers, Socialites, ESPN addicts, etc, who engage in a pastime that seems shallow and uniteresting on the outside, but provides them with plenty of fun to fill up their free time.
Personally, I would rather read one of her interviews with organic produce farmers or playwrights than any of the "food porn" she so eloquently describes. Salon, why don't you publish those? Instead of writing melodramatic, self-referential articles about the difficulty of being a journalist or a writer, give us the work products of journalism and writing. Give us less autobiography and more narrative!
