Best of Think '25: Why everybody is a foodie now
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4.7 • 911 Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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For many, “The Great British Bakeoff” is must-see TV – and watching it has taught us a lot about food. Ruby Tandoh is a journalist who was also a finalist on the show, and she joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how everyone is a “foodie” now, why hard-to-find ingredients are all the rage even in the Average Joe’s kitchen, and how unlimited access to recipes online has made us more discerning. Her book is “All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now.”
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| 0:47.3 | That's OMGS.com. The studio where we record this show happens to be located on the grounds of the state fair of Texas, which is happening as we speak. |
| 1:06.8 | Each state fair has its own regional character, and at least at ours, the sort of classic meal to inhale as you walk around is what we in Texas call a corny dog. |
| 1:15.6 | My friends, the corny dogs are coming out hot. The corny dogs are ready. There's no waiting here. |
| 1:22.3 | And maybe a cotton candy. There's a contest every year for new foods, and the standouts are often deep fried. Deep fried |
| 1:29.8 | butter won a prize in 2009. So it's hard to know what to make of some of this year's newcomers, |
| 1:36.3 | which sound like things you would find at a hot new chef-driven restaurant in some gourmet capital. |
| 1:41.4 | A biria ramen bowl, crepes topped with brisket, arugula, saracha, and |
| 1:45.6 | chummy chummy sauce, and a Dubai chocolate confection featuring gold-dusted brown butter and |
| 1:51.7 | something called pistachio flaws. Suffice it to say, none of this is designed to be eaten off |
| 1:57.8 | a stick. From KERA in Dallas, this is think. I'm Chris Boyd. It seems |
| 2:03.5 | everybody is a foodie these days, but how did this happen exactly? How did it come to be that |
| 2:09.0 | so many regular people know about and crave and even cook with ingredients that would have been |
| 2:14.1 | very hard to find in any grocery store 50 years ago. Ruby Tando |
| 2:18.4 | looked into this. She's a journalist and author, and as it happened, she was also a finalist |
| 2:23.5 | on the Great British Bake Off in 2013. Her newest book is called All Consuming, Why We Eat, |
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