What is a Foodie?

According to Wikipedia:

A foodie is a person who has an ardent or refined interest in food and who eats food not out of hunger but due to their interest or hobby. The terms "gastronome" and "gourmet" define the same thing, i.e. a person who enjoys food for pleasure.

Lately, everyone seems to be a foodie. It is almost bad manners not to be one. It speaks of decadence, of indulgence, of hedonism. The unrepentant consumerism.

The nuance is that these days foodie-ness is conducted in a socially and environmentally sustainable manner with local sourcing and organic ingredients.

Miriam Webster goes a bit further back, reverting to Latin and hoch Deutsch:

Foodie is a relatively recent addition to our language (dating from the early 1980s), but it derives from a much older word, food, which has been with us for as long as there has been anything that could be called English. Food can be traced back through Middle English to the Old English form fōda, which is itself related to Old High German fuotar, meaning "food" or "fodder," and Latin panis, meaning "bread." Panis is the source for empanada (a turnover with a sweet or savory filling), panatela(a type of cigar), panettone (a kind of bread containing raisins and candied fruit), and pantry (a room used for the storage of provisions).

And at the bottom of it all, apart from the hedonism, food is about building relationships, about hearth, about breaking bread together. It is the quintessential part of communication among living beings, people and animals, central to establishing trust.