Foodietitian? It's a mouthful.

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My name is Rene. I am a...

Foodie: A person with a special interest in or knowledge of food.

This term is often used with scorn to indicate someone who is a food snob, wanna-be gourmand, or elitist jerk. I just think about food. I read about food. Where it comes from, who grew it, who brought it to me, who benefits from it, who is harmed by it, how nutritionally dense is it, and -best of all - how it tastes. I claim this label.

I am also a...

Dietitian: An expert in food and nutrition.

This term is often used to indicate a health professional who "tells you what you should and should not eat" to become healthy. In other words, someone who sucks the joy out of a person's relationship with food and turns it into a clinical prescription. I just like to study food and nutrition. I've been doing that for over 10 years now.

Now, technically the D word also means that I am "An individual qualified by graduation from a college or university with a major in foods or nutrition or institution management and possessing either a baccalaureate or a masters degree and registered by the American Dietetic Association." Dietitian is a professional title defended vigorously by the ADA; as a nationally registered dietetic technician who has completed all of the ADA's officially sanctioned curricula as well as majoring in nutritional anthropology, I claim this label, too.