Unfortunately, for many, it’s smoke and mirrors, it’s style over substance. It’s still possible to find inspiration from a select few that choose to share their creative efforts for all to see. I also find a good number of new places to eat from users based in cities I’m less familiar with. I love Instagram and my curiosity is often piqued by a well curated Tumblr, or Pinterest board. Social media feeds, a necessary evil these days, have been compromised by lackluster, or downright misleading content posted by lazy individuals looking to benefit from the latest food craze, which is usually old hat by the time they parrot their buzzwords. Photo sharing applications which were once ripe with authentic food lovers posting unique, heartfelt and at times scatterbrained shots, has evolved into calculated, inorganic vehicles for hardly veiled advertisement. They furiously thumb through their thesaurus, searching for alternatives to good, delicious, and tasty, replacing them with flowery nonsense like miraculous and enchanting. Traditional print, social media and online blogs have become playgrounds for amoral, shallow “food lovers” to peddle their “reviews”, which are almost always positive, and typically written in exchange for a handout. It’s one of deceit and false admiration, and it’s infiltrated every form of media. ![]() There’s a maddening trend slowly choking the food scene as I know it.
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