Anthony Bourdain: Food Porn

Just finished watching Bourdain's food porn episode. Expecting the standard clip show - either rehashing segments they already played or showing the segments that got cut during the editing process. I was 100% wrong and glad I decided to watch. The film crew goes around to some big time chefs and ask them what their version of food porn would be.

Notable food porn segments include:

• Eric Ripert and his uni and caviar pasta
• Alan Wong and his butter poached lobster and abalone
• Terrance Brennan and his soft poached egg topped with cheese sauce and truffles
• The mother of all segments was the phenomenal Au Pied de Cochon and his franken-pig recreation. Basically, taking every piece of the pig, from nose to tail, and cooking each piece using a different cooking method - obviously there's fois gras stuffed items to make it over the top food porn. Completely f'n sick and a wtf money shot moment...
  

Food Glorious Food

Food is everywhere: magazines, advertisements, podcasts, websites and TV shows. Some of these media serve to instruct or distract or both. In the land of plenty, food is both nourishment for the body and fodder for the mind. For many Dudes who love foods, food culture has become something else – something more primal that fires neurons in the brain between pleasure and curiosity; Food Porn, a feast for the eyes.

It is commonplace to talk about the obvious aspects of food: how did it taste, what aromas were wafting from the plate, how did it feel on the palate? The patience to take a second and drink in the colors, shapes and textures on the plate will be duly rewarded with a fresh appreciation of the foods we love.

Two great places to start exploring on the web are the blogs Playing With Fire and Water and Ideas in Food. These two havens for the foodie’s visual fix are packed with amazing photos and great articles from three people who are keeping the tradition of playing with food alive… go on Dudes, it’s OK to look.

http://www.playingwithfireandwater.com/
http://www.ideasinfood.com/