The internet certainly played its part. As we spend increasing hours buried in our computers the very fact that food can't be consumed virtually gives it a special resonance. You can, of course, post pictures of what you’re eating - people do that by the millions - but that’s no substitute for the scent of onions caramelizing in butter, the sound o... See more

For @spike_art food issue, I propose a theory: the RISE of foodie-ism, i.e. food/restaurants becoming a need-to-know category offering cultural cachet, can be directly attributed to the DECLINE of traditional haute culture forms—art, fashion, cinema etc (1/x) https://t.co/Qv0yoYmdxb