'Gastro-porn'

[le_bombement]

Check this out:

'Food magazines contain luscious centre-folds (referred to quite accurately by Barry Smart (1994) as 'gastro-porn' - seductive but unobtainable and artificially, stereotypically perfect)'

Consuming Geographies, David Bell and Gill Valentine, eds.

Never look at a cookbook quite the same way again!

Comments

[smelly_belly]

listen to Jamie O when he takes baked veggies out of the oven..
"oh yeah yeah yeaaah!"

[le_bombement]

i was about to say 'sociologists are such strange people' but i think i'd better hold my tongue ;)

[smelly_belly]

shane!! where's shane!
i need social support :P

[le_bombement]

social support is a social construction? :p

[strawberry_cow]

but isn't support just a social construct. maybe you don't really need it

[smelly_belly]

biatch!