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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.

The first-ever Summit Food and Wine Festival comes to Summit, N.J., this weekend, and we'll be Tweeting from the scene, both at tonight's fancy opening gala and at Sunday's Burger Summit hosted by "Cutlets," aka Citysearch Senior Editor and meat impresario Josh Ozersky.

We'll be keeping a sharp eye peeled for food-lebrities tonight, so follow our Tweets here -- which reminds us, are you following us on Twitter?

See our Summit Wine & Food Festival Tweets after the jump.