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I Hate 'foodie' Because It's Cute, Like Pretty Much All Diminutives Associated With Eating. 'veggies,' 'sammies,' 'parm.' I Eat Food, And I Cook It: It's For Eating, Preferably With Friends, And I Don't Make A Fetish Out Of It.

Im Busy Doing My Job, And Being A Loudmouth Doesnt Appeal To Me As Much As When I Was Younger And Had The Youthful Delusion That I Was Smarter Than Everybody Else.

The Woman I Am Currently Crazy About Was A Vegetarian For A Year Until I Started Dating Her. As Is The Case With Most Vegetarians, She Had Never Eaten Properly Prepared Meat, Only Commercially Packaged Or Otherwise Abused Flesh.

Cooking Is About Presenting Flavors And Other Aspects Of Food In A Way That Makes Best Use Of Them And Makes An Engaging, Satisfying Meal. Taste Necessarily Comes Into It Along With Technique. Some Ingredients Require Cooking, Cleaning Or Otherwise Denaturing Them, Some Are Fine As They Are.

Over The Last Thirty Years Or So, I Have Definitely Become More Enlightened About Corners Of The Social Spectrum That I Had Less Exposure To As A Young Man. I've Interacted With More Poor People, More Minorities And More Sexual Minorities. As You Get More People From Different Backgrounds Involved In Your Life, You Get A Broader Perspective And You're Less Cavalier About Your Opinions.