Friday, August 31, 2007

Designer Food Stylings

Wayne Roberts has an interesting article at Now in which he contends that glossy, designer food photography is having the same distorting effect on our culinary appetites that fashion photography has had on our norms about body image.

In short, we are becoming pickier about perfect produce.

Writing from a redearth farm in PEI, Roberts contends that as a consequence,"most of the food we toss, perhaps one-fifth of the harvest, is wasted simply because it disappoints visual expectations..."

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto
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