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Here Come the Gastrocrats

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Food writer Josh Ozersky is coining words again, and this time it's "Gastrocrats." Citing the obscene prices ($3,000!) being charged for tickets to Grant Achatz's Next on Craiglist, Ozersky asks if these big spenders aren't more interested in the next hot restaurant than the food itself. After all, he writes, "paying as much for a meal as one would for a used car is just gross." [Time]