Food writing doesn’t have to mean food snobberyFood writing doesn’t have to mean food snobbery

Many people expect me to be a food snob because I’m a food writer living in New York. 


They expect me to be judgmental of their tastes, to sneer at chefs who don’t butcher their own hogs, to think carefully about whether to sprinkle grey salt from Brittany on my venison or to go instead with pink salt from Hawaii.


There’s a reason for their expectations. Food snobbery has a long and storied history, and now that food is fashionable, it is considered acceptable in some circles to belittle the tastes of others.


Former chef and current celebrity Anthony Bourdain, host of “No Reservations” on the Travel Channel, did just that recently when he was on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report.”


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