"Foodie" defined for us by an expert
We've discussed what a foodie is in the past, but I had no idea the subject was of interest to librarians until Dahlink passed along the following definitions for the purpose of cataloging books. Here's what Dahlink had to say, and then below it is the post by Heidi Hoermann, who works at the School of Library and Information Science at the University of South Carolina. EL
Elizabeth, there has been a discussion among catalogers about how to define a foodie (all because of a book someone published about foodies that needs a subject heading). Thought you might enjoy this...[It] came from a listserv for catalogers (international in scope) called AUTOCAT. People post questions (and sometimes answers!) to hard cataloging problems. ...
Subject: Re: Subject heading help - foodies
A gourmet is one who studies, knows, and appreciates finely made food. They do not eat barbecue unless it is served in a place with white linen napkins.
A gourmand is one who knows and appreciates finely made food, knows the regional differences in barbecue, and can get you to the best barbecue places.
A foodie appreciates finely made food, knows where all the good barbecue joints are and has a smoker in the back yard. The foodie both eats it and makes it.
A glutton goes to the local barbecue all-you-can-eat and spends several hours at the trough but is equally happy with the stuff in the grocery store deli counter.
For "granularity" in subject analysis, though, one term with references is probably sufficient.
--Heidi (who is a foodie -- no smoker but I will drive hours for good barbecue and I make ravioli from scratch)
A gourmet is one who studies, knows, and appreciates finely made food. They do not eat barbecue unless it is served in a place with white linen napkins.
A gourmand is one who knows and appreciates finely made food, knows the regional differences in barbecue, and can get you to the best barbecue places.
A foodie appreciates finely made food, knows where all the good barbecue joints are and has a smoker in the back yard. The foodie both eats it and makes it.
A glutton goes to the local barbecue all-you-can-eat and spends several hours at the trough but is equally happy with the stuff in the grocery store deli counter.
For "granularity" in subject analysis, though, one term with references is probably sufficient.
--Heidi (who is a foodie -- no smoker but I will drive hours for good barbecue and I make ravioli from scratch)
Comments
Where is everybody today? I might have to actually (gulp) work.
Posted by: RayRay | January 20, 2009 12:39 PM
RayRay - our IS police told us to stay off the net during the heavy traffic period of the inauguration.
Posted by: Joyce W. | January 20, 2009 5:01 PM
That's like the two kids in the old taco kit commercial:
"I like making 'em."
"I like eating 'em."
Which one's the foodie?
Posted by: Retired in Elkridge | January 20, 2009 6:17 PM
our IS police told us to stay off the net during the heavy traffic period of the inauguration
Verizon did their part to help. My DSL line was down from around 11:30 am to 5:30 pm or so. :-(
Posted by: Hal Laurent, VoR | January 20, 2009 6:41 PM
LC (Library of Congress, the font of all cataloging wisdom, or so they inform us [I walked by it this morning]) will never accept that definition. It makes too much sense. Besides, there is an informal 20 year waiting period on all new subject headings. They just added pop-up books, after all, and those have been around at least 40 years.
RayRay, I was being herded around DC thanks to the Secret Service's inability to "secure" an inauguration.
Posted by: Lissa | January 20, 2009 11:35 PM
Lissa, my opinion of LC has plummeted since they abandoned authority control for series. Sacrilege!
Posted by: Dahlink | January 21, 2009 6:44 AM
Lissa - did you end up on the mall?
Posted by: Joyce W. | January 21, 2009 7:01 AM
Lissa, I don't know whether it was an inability to secure the inauguration or over-securing it that was the problem. I kept getting stuck in pile-ups, where they weren't letting people go even though the maps indicated it was ok. And I finally spent so long walking WAAAAY around all the barriers to the other side of the Capitol to Independence Ave. that I never made it to the Mall before time for the ceremony. I found an off-Mall spot where I could hear what was going on (except for when one of the roughly 1 million ambulances came by) and just stood there. And then finding Union Station still closed and locked more than an hour after the first trains were scheduled to be heading back was the cherry on top. It was amazing to be there, but I think DC dropped the ball badly.
Posted by: KristinB | January 22, 2009 1:07 PM
Dahlink, I feel you. LC must stop listening to the Library 2.0 robots.
KristinB, I'm sorry you didn't make it to the Mall. We did (4 hours walking and rolling from Union Station, we ended up by the WWII Memorial), and it was awesome. We had an obstructed view of the Jumbotron, but singing the "hey, hey, hey Goodbye!" song as Dubya's helicopter went over was gigglisciously fun.
The Secret Service decided to go for the "lots of clueless people" school of security, rather than the "a few highly trained, highly competent people" school. Add the random barriers (ever hauled a wheelchair over a K barrier?), random street openings and closings, gratuitous bottlenecks and enthusiastic but poorly trained volunteers, and it is amazing anyone got anywhere.
The MARC folks did an incredible job, however.
Posted by: Lissa | January 22, 2009 2:49 PM
Ah, Lissa. That's where I went wrong. My train got in at 9:00, so I only had 3 hours and got only as far as the Washington Monument. Glad you had a great experience!
Posted by: Anonymous | January 22, 2009 5:19 PM
Mu daughter was in DC on Tuesday. She's all grownup and has been out of the house before, but she was stunned by the mass of really mellow humanity. The jumbotrons everywhere sounded a bit 1984ish, but from her description and yours, Lissa, I think it sounds very like Woodstock run by the Feds.
Posted by: Eve | January 23, 2009 9:24 AM
Eve, a NY Times columnist described it as "Woodstock without the mud." While I saw no naked people and only smelled pot once, that probably isn't the worst description.
Had the crowd not been so happy and mellow, I think there would have been crushing injuries.
Posted by: Lissa | January 23, 2009 10:11 AM