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Self-absorbed? Nah.
The author's approach to food writing involved connecting with real people and their lives. A food article about a restaurant that is feeding the homeless out back? I think I'd like to read that. An article about organic pig farmers? I'm pretty sure I'd like to read that. And the observation that the foodies (at least the women) are tasting but not eating? That doesn't sound self absorbed to me; it sounds like the novelist's instinct for observing actual life comes through.
This is an article about foodies in a particular kind of up-scale food scene. It involves the author being sucked into that scene, and then leaving it. The author's experience serves as a lense for for viewing one kind of relationship with food and another, but the story is not about her, and it's theme is not "poor me." Too bad some readers found it boring. I didn't.
