You know you are a foodie when…

April 14 2009 at 9:59pm

1. Your Christmas list consists less of Chanels and Louboutins and more of Williams-Sonomas and Wusthofs.
2. You think people who roll their eyeballs after hearing that they need to book 3 months ahead to eat at a particular restaurant are plain ignorant and just don’t get what this all means!
3. You have an ongoing list in your head of restaurants you are yet to try in your neighborhood and beyond.
4. You can’t stop wondering for days what it was that’s so special about that lentil soup you had—Nutmeg? Rosemary? Bacon?
5. You can’t get over the amazing fact that coconut water can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
6. You practice hard making the perfect poached eggs.
7. When it’s potluck time, you stress out about what to make because you always want to make an impression, a good one hopefully.
8. You engage all your senses when consuming food —not just barbarically shove anything and everything into your mouth. You take time and savor your food.
9. You run to every prix fixe menu opportunity, especially at fine dining restaurants you normally hesitate to eat at.
10. You are overjoyed (almost in tears) at the sight of your perfectly baked dark chocolate soufflés.
11. You go through the trouble of baking cookies from scratch just because you love having your kitchen smell of them.
12. You know that a home isn’t a home unless it’s got a fully-equipped kitchen with all the kitchen tools and all the extras that come with them that you absolutely absolutely need and must own.
13. When making pancakes, you can’t stop at 5 or 10. You somehow just have to make at least 20 or more. Just in case.
14. You have (or at least dream of having) your own garden of herbs and vegetables so you can conveniently pick your basil or cilantro in your own backyard when you need to make dinner.
15. You don’t mind testing out “unconventional” foods because that is what partly defines you as a foodie.
16. You like being called a foodie because you are a true foodie at heart.