If the Ebeshter did not want us to experience “pleasure” from ingesting great food separate from the physiological need for nutrition, why did he wire our nervous system and sensory organs so that such “pleasure ” messages get sent from mouth to brain???
It’s not a matter of Hashem not wanting us to have any pleasure, it’s a matter of to what degree we pursue it. The argument against being a “foodie” isn’t that we should live a completely ascetic lifestyle (although prishus has a legitimate place in Yiddishkeit, it’s not for any of us on the CR), it’s that being a foodie is being too much of a pleasure seeker. There mst definitely is something called a naval birshus haTorah; the issue is whether being a foodie crosses that line.