Gastroporn
May 13th 2007 11:55
What is Gastroporn, you ask?
Here is the Wordspy definition: gastroporn n. It is the suggestive pictures and prose used to describe recipes in upscale cookbooks or menu items in fancy restaurants. Adjectives used include succulent, mouth-watering, tantalizing, tender, juicy, and melt-in-your-mouth.
Simply, it's just so to make food sound all very appealing, erotic and sexy. Surely, anything "appealing, erotic and sexy" would tweak your curiosity and senses, no? Anything gastropornic relates to the sensuality of the food. Like one which may be described as "orgasamically" yummy...
The incessant watching of food being prepared on TV may be related to a gastropornic behaviourvial activity. Food has become the object of voyeurism - more often than not, as we watch Jamie Oliver or Nigella Lawson whip up a mouth watering, to-die-for meal on telly, we are shoving down a microwaved dinner.
So much for wining and dining in an upscale restaurant, or slaving in the kitchen to achieve a similar ala Jamie roasted chicken with garlicky whipped potatoes. The visual erotism of watching all of that done on telly, equates to the similar pleasures of savoring the actual meal.
It's no wonder that food/cooking shows and books are becoming ever popular. And chefs are turning into celebrity chefs not merely because of their cooking skills and inventive recipes. It is more to feed the cognitive gastropornic needs of followers. The preparing, cooking, tasting and eating of food has become voyeuristic pleasures separated from physical reality.
Here is the Wordspy definition: gastroporn n. It is the suggestive pictures and prose used to describe recipes in upscale cookbooks or menu items in fancy restaurants. Adjectives used include succulent, mouth-watering, tantalizing, tender, juicy, and melt-in-your-mouth.
Simply, it's just so to make food sound all very appealing, erotic and sexy. Surely, anything "appealing, erotic and sexy" would tweak your curiosity and senses, no? Anything gastropornic relates to the sensuality of the food. Like one which may be described as "orgasamically" yummy...
The incessant watching of food being prepared on TV may be related to a gastropornic behaviourvial activity. Food has become the object of voyeurism - more often than not, as we watch Jamie Oliver or Nigella Lawson whip up a mouth watering, to-die-for meal on telly, we are shoving down a microwaved dinner.
So much for wining and dining in an upscale restaurant, or slaving in the kitchen to achieve a similar ala Jamie roasted chicken with garlicky whipped potatoes. The visual erotism of watching all of that done on telly, equates to the similar pleasures of savoring the actual meal.
It's no wonder that food/cooking shows and books are becoming ever popular. And chefs are turning into celebrity chefs not merely because of their cooking skills and inventive recipes. It is more to feed the cognitive gastropornic needs of followers. The preparing, cooking, tasting and eating of food has become voyeuristic pleasures separated from physical reality.
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Comment by Bryn
Horrorphile
I wanna do a show called Gastroporn!!!
Someone should open a restaurant called Gastroporn! A place where you can join their exclusive members club and after dinner go downstairs to the "wine cellar" and into a specially designed private screening room to watch trashy blue movies with food scenes like Nine-and-a-half Weeks and 70s arthouse culinary debauchery like La Grande Bouffe ....
I'm salivating already!!! LOL
Comment by Ruby
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Comment by Bryn
Horrorphile
I'm down for the VIP celebrity chefs performing live .... I'd be curious to see what Anthony Bourdain would do (I love his books!)... but not keen to see Jamie Oliver (he so annoys me).. lol
The Japanese Iron Chef would no doubt produce something astonishing!
Comment by Ruby
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Comment by David John Burke
culinarian
culinarian ask the chef