Confused by the burgeoning supply of food porn (the name is not my fault) on the Internet? Here are the best sites to follow.
FoodPornDaily is the eponymous king of mouth-watering culinary photography. Every day features a new, super-close-up photograph of a delectable dish, with the food's name woven into the photograph. Click on the photos to scroll through previous days. Waking up to this website is a fabulous way to start your morning.
TasteSpotting, FoodGawker and Photograzing are all, as TasteSpotting puts it, "community driven visual potlucks." Individuals submit beautiful photos of food which are moderated and posted to the site; the photos often link to a recipe or website. Photograzing displays slightly fewer photos per page, but sorts them by fun categories like "International Cuisine" and "Bacon." FoodGawker and TasteSpotting are nearly identical: each features lots of pictures, with links to the most popular entries or to a random selection of photos. FoodGawker is slightly more tricked out, with a neat directory of all its food categories at the bottom of the page for easy searching, and a link to store your personal favorite photos. All three sites update very regularly, so check back every few hours for new treats to drool over. You can also follow all three sites on Twitter.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, This Is Why You're Fat is an exercise in revulsion and amazement. Individuals still submit photographs of their own culinary creations, but here, the goal is to be as high-calorie, high-fat, and high-carb as possible. If you think your monstrosity is ready for submission, you're wrong: wrap it in bacon, dip it in chocolate, add a few more eggs, and deep-fry it. Now it's ready.
And finally...
Cake Wrecks is a fun collection of cakes gone "horribly, hilariously wrong." A bit snarky at times, the site is mostly just hilarious. Beautiful cakes are showcased once a week as Sunday Sweets, to restore a bit of your faith in the future of the baking profession.
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Hi Meb,
ReplyDeleteThis is such a great introduction for visitors who are newbies to the great food porn movement of the 21st century (although how anyone could have come this far without knowing about the sites you recommend is beyond me! :) ).
I'm writing to let you know about another fantastic food porn site: TasteStopping. It's a site that publishes the photos rejected by the big three that you mention above, and was compared favorably to Cake Wrecks when I first launched it. I like to say that it's the last stop on the web to see what people are cooking, eating and sharing. And, since we only publish food photography that has been rejected elsewhere, TasteStopping will show you what the others won't.
Hope you will swing by and check it out! It's a lot of fun.
Best,
Casey
Editor
www.tastestopping.wordpress.com