Thursday, May 6, 2010

Food Porn?

OK, I have to admit I can't be much of a foodie if I was just introduced to the term food porn this week. I'm a wine guy so I guess can stop beating myself up about it.

Wikipedia has a nice article that describes food porn as "a provocative term variously applied to a spectacular visual presentation of cooking or eating in advertisements, infomercials, cooking shows or other visual media, foods boasting a high fat and calorie content, exotic dishes that arouse a desire to eat or the glorification of food as a substitute for sex." Check out the entire entry for more information. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_porn

Good looking photos of food can make you hungry and the elation at eating a good meal is pretty high up there. I guees I thought we already had other words and phrases to describe these things.

There is an active community of folks who try to capture their own spin on food porn. Check out these links for a little taste...

http://www.foodporn.com/
http://foodporndaily.com/
http://www.foodieview.com/views/

Hopefully I have shared a bit of my education with you and you are now wiser to one of the counter culture trends just below the surface in the food world.

Cheers!

--Jason

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