Ann Arbor Eats Instagram brings local food to students – The Michigan Daily

Photos Courtesy of Ann Arbor Eats Photos Courtesy of Ann Arbor Eats Photos Courtesy of Ann Arbor Eats Photos Courtesy of Ann Arbor Eats The Instagram account Ann Arbor Eats pulled me from my complex distrust for food accounts into a new city’s food scene. As I continue to eat through Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor Eats guides me every step and bite of the way.  As shown by my long-defunct, pun-ridden Instagram, I was a pre-teen foodie. After years of proving that every meal I ate looked perfect, I realized I had lost some of the joy of tasting and sharing a meal. My cronut obsession and table-reorganization habit were not worth some hundred followers and a few friends commenting empty “yums.” I fell into a pit of shame. Food Instagrams democratized the exclusive world of food reviewing and reporting. They soon came to represent waiting in line for overhyped desserts, neglecting diverse local food for “trends” or advertising unattainable “clean” eating. Today, with the fear of being “cheugy” and trying too hard to be trendy, people aspire to an effortless yet effortful posting standard. “Foodie” pages thrive off of impossible aesthetics, long lines and yearning audiences that want their…
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