gastroporn en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From gastro- + porn.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Enticing food imagery, typically found in books, magazines, social media , and television programs related to food and cooking.
Half-competent amateurs quickly learn not to cook from volumes with full-page glossy gastroporn pix, because their own culinary productions will never attain such lustre.
1998 September 21, Julian Barnes, “Deceptively Simple”, in The New Yorker: