Food Porn Daily!

A former student of mine introduced me to this blog last year: food porn daily grabs photos from food blogs all over the web, and serves one up every day.  If you want to make the food pictured, you can click on a link below the photo and go to the original website, where there's usually a blogpost and recipe to enjoy.  I've been saving the above "soft nutella and reese's pieces cookies" in my reader for about a month, now, wondering when I'll get around to making them.

There's a kind of side-bar interesting thing about this blog, too, which is the use of the word "porn" in the title.  It's accurate in a way, at least as a very good metaphor: these are sexy sexy pictures of food, and you glance at them and feel a kind of charge--or not, depending on your tastes.  Not turned on?  Flip to the next photo, of wasabi-encrusted Tuna, or Penne in fresh mozzarella, or burgandy-infused poached pears.  But the word "porn" has gone mainstream, and is now used for all kinds of different things, since porn itself has become less and less hidden from mainstream sight.  Using that word to describe something like pictures of cookies weakens our associations with actual porn, though--which might be a good thing, I'm thinking.  The less hand-wringing and mock-shock we muster about actual porn, the more we'll be able to judge it accurately.

All that from a picture of a cookie.