Good morning. Real talk on a Sunday: “Foodie” is a smug, unpleasant word, a diminutive, patronizing expression that reduces a person’s keen interest in the delicious to a silly fascination with cooking and eating.
“Foodie” is condescension wrapped in affectionate disdain, even for those who embrace the identity. Please avoid its use. We should all experience the freedom to cook whatever we want to cook, however we want to cook it, without judgment.
Like, for instance, this roasted salmon with peas and radishes. It profiles as superfancy, exactly the sort of dish you’d expect a foodie to cook on the weekend, with its pretty pinks and greens and oranges and its fragrantly nutty, miso-amped sauce.
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Roasted Salmon With Peas and Radishes
Except anyone can make it and everyone should, for the ingredients aren’t actually precious, aren’t necessarily expensive, and the result is an elegant, painterly meal of incredible excellence, just the sort of Sunday dinner to remind you why we walk the road to the delicious. There is no need to label that journey.