A foodie is someone who loves to eat and talk about interesting foods. There are some excellent high concept food restaurants in Salt Lake City, Utah. Photography courtesy of Victor Freitas.
A foodie, as you know, is a person who’s interested in food, and food fads. Someone who enjoys the most expensive and delicious and lovingly prepared foods. Someone who loves to eat, talk, and think about food.
A foodie does not eat conventional potato chips.
Unless said potato chips are organic and sautéed in truffle oil.
A foodie eats local cuisine
A foodie eats local cuisine, fresh food, raw food, and strange (aka interesting foods.) The weirder the better. Like yak meat. And chicken feet.
The more gourmet the better. Persimmons. Goji berries. Lion’s mane mushrooms. Duck confit. (I’m not sure I even know what duck confit is…)
If you think of three words to describe Salt Lake City, one of them probably won’t be “foodie.”
Nope.
Salt Lake City usually makes you think of businessmen sporting short haircuts and long-skirted mothers herding children like goslings. It’s never been known for its culinary prowess.
There are foodies in Salt Lake City, Utah
Ask a local, such as 25-year-old library assistant Patrick Hoecherl, what folks in Salt Lake City like to eat, and he’ll tell you the dish of choice at every large gathering is green Jell-O with grated carrots, appropriately molded with scalloped edges.
But there’s another side to Salt Lake City food: a foodie culture that includes offbeat and even New Age-y restaurants proving as popular as places serving home-style cooking.
It turns out you can find vegan food, organic food, high concept Mexican food, and more in Salt Lake City’s foodie outposts.
My “Smart Mouth” article about Salt Lake City was published in yesterday’s Washington Post.
It’s available on-line here.
Published: November 17, 2008
Updated: January 24, 2024
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