FOOD PORN:Food that turns

you on

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STARTERWhat food porn is

NOT

It is not about beating hunger (hambre)…

… or eating corn cakes on your knickers…

… or liking (gustas-gústate-gusto) oneself to a paroxysm.

And we are not talking Casanova’s pleasures….

…or the family spirit in Eat, drink, man, woman…

… or Julia Roberts’ transforming diet.

Neither about the passion in Last Tango…

… or 9 ½ weeks...

(right-click to watch clip)

It is more about this (right-click to watch clip)…

… without getting into this…

…or well, this…

The opposite of Food for Thought…

… Food for Fuck?

We are talking Food Porn…

“Click. Drool. Repeat”

30,000+ members groups…

… vindicating what they eat.

Exhibition ‘Del bodegón al food porn’ (right-click to see

website)

Nigella Lawson, queen of food porn? (right-click to watch clip)

Traditional food porn

Boys…

From when we were only European…

… or Western…

… with more or less realism.

… and girls…

First courseGlobal food porn

A world of kebabs...

…pizzas…

…hamburguers…

… and of course…

… doughnuts.

The McWrap case: another turn of the screw…

French/Italian/German advertisement (right-click to

watch clip)

Spanish advertisement (right-click to watch clip)

… and related posters (observe the orientation of the mouth and the

pieces of chicken in each poster)…

… which end up seducing everybody.

Main courseEat… me

Padma Lakshmi: model

Padma Lakshmi: presenter

Padma Lakshmi: writer

Padma Lakshmi: wife of…

… and meat ambassador (right-click to watch clip).

Dessert

Her own sweet way…

Adult pleasure? (right-click to watch video, or why these girls

needed a tranquilizer…)

Praise for the chocophallus… Before (1980s poster)…

… and now (right-click to see web page, or chocophallus turned into

customized dildos)

Lost innocence (this man was the Kinder Bueno kid for

twenty years)…

… and sprawled (Kinder Bueno poster in Eastern Europe

countries)

Kinder Bueno Poland

Between the insect and the little pill…

M & Ms U.S. (right-click to see web page, or why M & Ms look like

design drugs)

Kinder Bueno Poland: what oozes?

Interview with te vampire, or the drip of blood…

True Blood

Fright Night/ Noche de miedo (double entendre in the Spanish poster: “This

neighbour is a wolf in sheep’s clothing/ killing them (the women)… softly)

Kinder Bueno Spanish website (right-click to see it)

Kinder Bueno Polish website (right-click to watch clip)

To hedge one’s bets…? (half-open mouth, but unconfessed vice)

… or all-you-can-eat?

Thanks

raquel.herrera@gmail.com