{"id":11256,"date":"2013-10-07T22:12:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T02:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=11256"},"modified":"2013-10-07T22:12:04","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T02:12:04","slug":"i-was-snapping-foodie-pics-before-snapping-foodie-pics-was-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/07\/i-was-snapping-foodie-pics-before-snapping-foodie-pics-was-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"I was snapping foodie pics before snapping foodie pics was cool"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s been a backlash recently against the practice many of us have of taking photos of our food, with some so annoyed they’re suggesting a total ban<\/a>, and others going so far as to claim that anyone who does this kind of thing are suffering from mental illness<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To which I say\u2014I’ve been snapping foodie pics since long before snapping foodie pics was cool, and I don’t plan to ever stop!<\/p>\n

If you don’t believe me, a raid on my old photo albums ought to convince you. Check out the first Peking Duck I ever roasted, from way back in 1977.<\/p>\n

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How proud was I of that duck? So proud that I did more than just take its picture—I also had someone snap a photo of me holding<\/em> that photo!<\/p>\n

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And here I am at a 1978 dinner party about to carve up a Beef Wellington made with puff paste I whipped up from scratch …<\/p>\n

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… and later the same night, posing with a Napoleon I assembled, also made with homemade puff paste.<\/p>\n

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Don’t worry, I sliced that monster into six individual Napoleons once I was done hamming it up.<\/p>\n

In 1976, I was also deep-frying my own cannoli shells …<\/p>\n

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… and was for some reason ridiculously proud of my macaroni and beef.<\/p>\n

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In any case, I suggest people stop complaining about this foodie obsession, because you wouldn’t want to rile me up. As this 1978 photo of Chef Edelman will tell you …<\/p>\n

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… that won’t end well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s been a backlash recently against the practice many of us have of taking photos of our food, with some so annoyed they’re suggesting a total ban, and others going so far as to claim that anyone who does this kind of thing are suffering from mental illness. To which I say\u2014I’ve been snapping foodie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-11256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}