Foodtography

Quick meaning: Foodtography is a noun meaning (informal) The practice of diners photographing food they are served in restaurants, usually for the purpose of sharing the photos on social media.

Meaning

(informal) The practice of diners photographing food they are served in restaurants, usually for the purpose of sharing the photos on social media.

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Foodtography is the relatively recent trend of taking pictures of food and sharing them online via social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.

Gilles Goujon, from the three-starred L'Auberge du vieux puits in the south of France, has stated in an interview with news website France TV that foodtography is not only poor etiquette but he believes that when his dishes appear online, it takes away "a little bit of my intellectual property".

But for many bloggers, at least half the experience of the meal is in its photographic documentation—or “foodtography” (Wasserman 2011) —even if that means letting the food get cold, or leaving your dining companion alone for an hour while you go home to get the right lens, which a diner at Alinea reportedly did (Murphy 2010).

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Related dictionary entries include foodstagramming, foodstagram, fotography, foodgasm, foodscape, fotog.

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