You Aren’t Always What You Eat

The Pleasures and Limits of a Foodie Identity

There is no sincerer love than the love of food. Spotting foodie tourists on Rome’s cobblestone streets was easy because they were us. Asian or Caucasian travelers, usually, walking briskly. Carrying smartphones in raised palms, as if in offering to the digital map gods who were navigating us miles out of our way for a peak street food experience.

And wh…