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National Foodie Day 2025
A 🌞 Summer 🔥 Saturday is a perfect day to celebrate National Foodie Day. If you’re obsessed with flavor, texture, aroma and bombing social media with whatever you’re eating, this is your day.
It’s About Sharing
Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It’s not about nutrients and calories. It’s about sharing. It’s about honesty. It’s about identity. ~Louise Fresco
Have you ever shared your food on social media?
Was it food you’re enjoying at a restaurant or something you were particularly proud of having made?
Okay, I’ve done both, but I don’t consider myself a foodie by the typical definition.
We have to eat to survive. A lot of us like enjoying it while we’re doing so.
Nothing wrong with that, to be certain. So, where’s the line drawn?
Foodie?
What is a foodie?
She’s got some interesting points and she gives you two out of five points to qualify as a foodie.
I suppose it really depends on how obsessive you are about it.
I can really dig into something spectacular and amazingly epicurean or I can jam a large spoonful of peanut butter in my mouth and be completely satisfied.
Given a bottomless wallet, I’d be just as likely to grab a snack at a gas station quickie-mart as to stop in somewhere with fancy dishes.
On the other hand, Kelly and I would likely rent a box truck and raid every bookstore and library book sale in a thousand mile radius with the aforementioned bottomless wallet.
Naturally, we’d need to build a new house with a substantial library space in it to hold all of our books.
The kitchen would be stocked and functional, but the library would be utterly bananas.
That’s just how we roll. I guess that makes us bookies? No, that means something else. Oops.
Kelly and I are ardent bibliophiles.
In fact, she pointed out an upcoming book sale (aka: reason to go utterly insane and come home with bags and stacks of lovely books).
Eat What You Like
Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. ~Mark Twain
I like rather a lot, which could certainly explain my BMI.
But as I’ve already said, I can just as easily spend an entire day eating virtually nothing (which I ought to more frequently).
It’s not so much that I’m fasting or dieting. I’m just too damn busy to eat.
So, when I get up for whatever reason, I may or may not grab a spoon and scoop up some lovely natural peanut butter or a cheese stick.
It’s not a conscious choice to try to lose weight, but rather that it’s a comforting flavor and a quick hit to settle a rumbly in my tumbly.
Sometimes, it’s because I’m so focused on work or have a bunch of meetings in the same day that I simply don’t have time for anything else.
Sometimes, it’s because I’ve gotten sucked into my book and I’m entirely too captivated with the writing to be bothered even remembering I have a body.
Either way, I’m a lot more focused on telling or consuming a story than obsessing about my food.
I can take it or leave it. Peanut butter or gourmet fare, it’s pretty much all the same to me.
That’s all for today. See you back on Wednesday to celebrate some folks with a hard but very necessary job…