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There's a new breed of food snob that revels in one-upmanship, on getting a reservation at the newest "temple of gastronomy" and then blathering on about it on Twitter; of ordering the most expensive wine on the list, not because it's exquisite but so it can be bragged about. This money-flashing, fast-talking breed is the gastrocrat, says Josh Ozersky, in his recent column for Time, and he's damn sick of it.
Ozersky, former Slashfood writer, and author of The Hamburger, A History, was prompted by a Craigslist offering of a reservation at the new Grant Achatz place, Next, for $3,000. Says Ozersky, "It's clear to me now. It's gotten out of hand."
Read more about Ozersky's blame game against the gastrocrats at Time.com.
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4-22-2011 @8:19AM LinC said... I don't know anybody like this. So a few people like to throw their money away on fancy food. Conspicuous consumption has been going on for hundreds of years. Just because some guy makes up a new word for it doesn't make it interesting or make it news. You can do better than this, Slashfood.
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4-22-2011 @11:37PM Pam said... Well, i know exactly the type of person this writer is referring to, and you can find them on every food blog. They are the people who think that all food at any type of chain is crap, no matter how successful they are. They also only eat at restaurants that have 'bistro', 'cafe', or 'brasserie' in their names. When they comment on food blogs, they write as if no one could possibly know as much about food or have as sophisticated a palate as they do. Now do you know who the article is talking about?
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