Friday, January 30, 2009

Food Porn

It's sort of weird that food photos are known as 'food porn.' It seems like a good way to make your photo, and the food, seem sort of dirty and gross. Even though porn isn't necessarily dirty and gross. Still, there's got to be a more interesting way than simply "food photography" but with less connotative meaning than porn.

I'm in class and we're watching Helvetica. It's a documentary on the ubiquitous typeface and about design in general a bit. While quite an interesting look at design and typefaces (a passion of my not so long-ago youth spent making websites), it's easy to become distracted while sitting in front of a sleek widescreen Mac.

I've been browsing vegan cooking blogs, and it's making my friend salivate a bit.

Check out Veganachronism, a blog that veganizes historical recipes. The most recent post is for tater tots! Not historical, but still delicious.

Or Vegan Cookies, pretty self explanatory. The blogger is developing a cookbook so there are only a few recipes, but a plethora of sugary cookie photos that I feel guilty even just glimpsing.

Next week on the cleanse there are plenty of sugary treats: maple pecan cookies, baked maple apple and a lemon-freaking-tart. But I've got to concentrate on this week and appreciate the tantalizing offerings (afternoon snack is baked tortillas with fresh guac; tonight is black bean cashew burgers) compared with last week's army of wiggly steamed veg.

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