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  • noun Enticing food imagery, typically found in books, magazines, and television programs related to food and cooking.

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gastro- +‎ porn

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  • The suggestive pictures and prose used to describe recipes in upscale cookbooks or menu items in fancy restaurants.

    January 24, 2008

  • Or on boxes of frozen food, marked with the "suggested serving" disclaimer because they know there's absolutely no way the stuff will look like that when you eat it...

    January 24, 2008