Topic: Foodie culture

Angelique Hakuzimana, displaced by war in her native Rwanda in 2009, talks with farm manager Zach Couture, right, in her garden at the Global Greens Farm, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014, in West Des Moines, Iowa. A growing interest from consumers to buy locally grown fruits and vegetables has provided a robust new market for refugees who have fled violence in their home countries and have found peace in farming small plots of land in cities across the United States. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) (AP)

Foodies changing the way America eats

Joshua T. Beck, Brandon Reich - The Conversation
San Francisco skyline; a dish of foraged foods made by Josh Skenes at Saison. (<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/g/Andrey+Bayda'>Andrey Bayda</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/AP/Eric Risberg)

Hungry to overpay by the Bay?

Laura Bolt
(Instagram/Screen montage by Salon)

Desperately hipster Pizza Hut

Nico Lang
(AP/Lionel Cironneau)

Nigella slams "clean eating"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(AP/Charles Rex Arbogast)

I'll take a McGangBang, please

Ashlie D. Stevens
Guy Fieri (AP/Rick Bowmer)

Reality TV drives food trends

Ashlie D. Stevens
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-487144p1.html'>bikeriderlondon</a> , <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-59369p1.html'>ariadna de raadt</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

Fine dining with my infant

Noah Lederman
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-140512p1.html'>Jiri Hera</a>, <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1504559p1.html'>morrison77</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

Everyone should wait tables

Michelle Wildgen