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Food Porn
You know what I'm going to talk about. You see the photos of food everywhere, gorgeous shots of the most delicious looking food you've ever seen. Some people are obsessed with looking at photos of food. "Food porn relies on a phenomenon called supernormal stimuli, which exaggerates qualities we're already hardwired to love," says Deirdre Barrett, Ph.D., an evolutionary psychologist at Harvard Medical School's Behavioral Medicine Program and author of Waistland: The Revolutionary Science Behind Our Weight and Fitness Crisis. Viewing food pictures can actually affect your body, simply seeing food increases levels of the hunger hormone ghrelin even if you're not hungry.
It happens to me all the time, I spot some kind of clickbait with a yummy photo and off I go, clicking and looking at glistening fruits, decadent desserts and savory meats. On and on, I shuffle through pictures of things I think about cooking or eating. It doesn't necessarily make me hungry, I just enjoy the food, and how the photographer framed the food and shot the photo. There is a huge science involved in food photography and if you knew what was actually making that food glisten so tempting, you'd feel less attracted to it.
Previously recipe and cooking sites were populated more with recipes and cooking tips but that has changed. It's all about the photos now. Oh sure, there's a link there somewhere that leads to a blog link to a blog that has the original recipe but what everyone is clicking are the photos.
So the next time you're looking for inspiration, and aren't too hungry, take a look at some food porn and let your imagination wander. Or cook up something delicious!
This month's question: Do you enjoy food photos? How do you feel about food photos shared on social media?
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Excerpt: “No soup for you!”
Thank god, he thought as the bowl was pulled from the table with thin, stool-colored liquids and a chunk sloshing out.
Excerpt: "The way to a man's heart is through his stomach, after all."
Excerpt: Beth wiped her lips with a red napkin as she walked away from the site of her latest meal; some drug dealer who had thought that she was all his- the world wouldn’t miss him much, and would be better off without the bastard.
| | | Hunger (13+)
A carnivorous monster with insatiable hunger is locked in a room with a defenseless human.
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Excerpt: Hungry.
So very hungry.
It’s all I think about. All I can think about. I must eat. But they’re keeping me hungry. They’re keeping me hungry on purpose. They want me to eat. Eat him alive.
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A young thief gets in trouble while stealing to provide for a starving family
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Excerpt: Kip snuck along the wall straining to hear the sounds of discovery. Silence was the key, if only Kip’s stomach would agree. Growls and gurgles split the night air, the rumblings and hunger pangs refusing to be ignored. Worse more was Kip’s family; a father in the grave, a mother worked to skin and bone, starving herself to feed her children, and two younger siblings whose hollow cheeks and bellies were a painful sight to behold. Sickness was hard to fight off when you couldn’t feed yourself.
Excerpt: Today, her grandson, Ryan, promised to stop by and tend to the flowerbeds. Lois gathered her lunch dishes and placed them in the sink. Her arthritis, asthma, and obesity hindered the everyday duties, but she managed to move around like Montezuma's revenge to clean the place before company arrived. She stumbled on a cat’s tail as she bent down to collect their dirty dishes from the floor.
Excerpt: “Sarah! Well finally!” The almighty Martha spewed out, “Where’s my script? Where’s my tea? Where’s Buster’s bone? What have you been doing all day?”
Sarah meekly looked around. “I didn't realize you’d be in this early. Let me get to that right now.” She turned, wringing the towel nervously in her hands. Sarah grabbed the kettle, while the diva stood talking doggie gibberish to Buster, who decided to mark the kitchen.
Excerpt: His mother always said he was “special” and she would always be there for him. She was, but not exactly. She passed away a month ago in her sleep and there she remained, covered in a worn-out rose patterned chenille blanket, her silver gray hair spread across the pillow
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This month's question: Do you enjoy food photos? How do you feel about food photos shared on social media?
Answer below Editors love feedback!
Last month's question: Do you like to take news articles and twist them into a story line?
Quick-Quill  replied: Like last months question, my WHAT IF? comes from watching the news, Discovery Chanel and the History Channel. Mysteries at the Museum can spark all kinds of stories.
aloksingh31 answers: its good to see people making stories from news article. Infact most of the media people do the same of creating their own stories from a certain headline or article from newspaper. Mind is full of fantasies and creativity and using such creativity and fantasies into a story is fantastic. I have also written stories from news articles and headlines. Like an accident in a hill can be created with fantasies of dinosaur involvement and i have written stories on it. The stories seems hypothetical but truely such stories create excitement in the readers mind.
Azrael Tseng responds: I always use news articles for inspiration. Whether it's a terrorist bombing or a shooting in Israel, or a research finding about AIs becoming aggressive - they all find a way into my stories or poems somehow. It's my way of commenting on them and using them to stir up deeper thoughts.
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