A Challenge: What’s the Source?
The gourmet was typically a rich male amateur to whom food was a passion. Foodies are typically an aspiring professional couple to whom food is a fashion. A fashion? The fashion. Couture has ceded the center ground to food.
You don’t live with the same menu for years–you discover, embrace, explore minutely, get bored, and move on tomorrow to fresh meals and pastas new.
You are an elite, an international elite with branches in every country. You are helpful to planet earth rather than doing any harm. Glamorous. Fun.
OK, I’ve slightly edited this. Full disclosure tomorrow and all the attributions supposing no one has identified author, source and date before then.
Paul Levy or Carlo Petrini.
I seriously have no idea and lack the desire and the know-how to do a lengthy search but will hazard a wild guess just for the fun of it.
Is it from an essay in Paul Freedman’s ‘Food – The History of Taste'(?)
The first two can be found by plugging bits of them into Googlebooks. The third is still a mystery…