Crazy Culinary Fads

Hard to please everyone…

As a caterer in the Washington DC and Northern Virginia community, we see a LOT of dietary challenges.  Couples are often faced with the question “how do I choose a menu for my wedding reception that will appeal to all my guests?”  So today we will take the light hearted approach to calling out nutty culinary fads.  A humorous tutorial from the March 2016 issue of Bon Appetit magazine  www.bonappetit.com
“The Culture Issue:  It’s official – The world’s gone food crazy”

“The Omnibore’s Delimma” 
writer Ben Schott indexes the more irksome fashions afflicting modern culture.  When I cater events, some of these are not so terribly off the mark.

K.W.F.
Kosher While Flying.  Non-Jews who request the in-flight kosher option because the food is better.  In prison this is known as K.W.I – Kosher While Incarcerated.

Omibore 
One who is so proud of eating absolutely everything she becomes as dull as those who eat absolutely nothing.

F.O.M.O.Varian 
One who simply has to fork a bite of every dish.

Glutenaught
(my personal favorite as I see this nearly every catered event…)
One who disdains gluten – not for any medical reason, but because it’s considered to be A Bad Thing In General

Beneviolence
Ordering “for the table” dishes only you want to eat
…not to be confused with:
Menunomics
Tactical ordering to obtain a subtle advantage when splitting the check
…similar to 
Teetotoll
The financial penalty paid by nondrinkers when splitting the bill with boozehounds.

S’Moralizing
Serenely declining dessert before taking a spoon to everyone else’s Pavlova.

Bone Brother
One who imagines he/she is the very first person to discover soup.

Ventriloquisine
Deploying incessant banter about food to distract from the fact that you never actually eat anything.

Sideophobe
 One whose diet involves substituting fries with salad
…not to be confused with…
Pattyvore
One who orders the burger but doesn’t eat the bun.

    YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE.

I hope you enjoyed some of these entries.  The full account is in the March 2016 issue.
I leave you with a photo from the same issue, which will be our next blog post recipe, but for now a tease of something not only gorgeous, tasty, but chock full of gluten, perfect for sharing, something for everyone and flat out Instagram worthy.

Breakfast Waffles from Bon Appetit

  Stay tuned for the recipe in our next blog post!
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