I Ate This

"In the unconscious mind, food equals love because food is our deepest and earliest connection with our caretakers. So it makes sense that people would want to capture, collect, catalog, brag about and show off their food."

Hello Fellow Foodies,

At our last meeting Linda gave me a great article about people who are just as crazy about food as we are. The article is titled Photo ops the Main Course for Serious Food Diarists. Essentially it is about people who take pictures of their food and post the pictures on the internet. It is not an uncommon thing, in fact it is very popular. It also is a glaringly truthful look into your eating habits and who you are as a person. After all, they say you are what you eat.

The article states that "the number of pictures tagged 'food' on the photo-sharing Web site Flickr has increased tenfold to more than 6 million in the last two years" and "'I Ate This' includes more than 300,00 photos that have been contributed by more than 19,000 members."

There are also a number of websites designed to fuel this type of photo diary phenomenon. Websites like http://www.foodspotting.com/, http://chowhound.chow.com/boards, and http://www.foodcandy.com/ are great resources if you would like to begin a food diary. Who knows I may look into it and begin posting our food pictures.

Thanks again Linda for the article! It is nice to see that there are people out there who love eating and sharing food as much as we do.