What is Food Porn?

Food Porn is the depiction and sexualisation of mouthwatering images in visual art and media in a way that is evocative as one would view pornography. Food Porn, or also known as gastro-porn, is created to provoke emotion or to trigger a desire to eat.

Alexander Cockburn in 1977 in an article for the New York Review of Books comments that the use of the term food porn “heightens the excitement and also the sense of the unattainable”.