Meanings
- informaluncountableThe practice of diners photographing food they are served in restaurants, usually for the purpose of sharing the photos on social media.
Foodtography is the relatively recent trend of taking pictures of food and sharing them online via social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.
2013 October 23, Christine Spiteri, “Snap unhappy”, in Times of Malta2 more examples
But for many bloggers, at least half the experience of the meal is in its photographic documentation—or “foodtography” (Wasserman 2011) —even if that means letting the food get cold, or leaving your dining companion alone for an hour while you go home to get the right lens, which a diner at Alinea reportedly did (Murphy 2010).
2011, Signe Rousseau, Food and Social Media: You Are What You Tweet, AltaMira Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 31Gilles Goujon, from the three-starred L'Auberge du vieux puits in the south of France, has stated in an interview with news website France TV that foodtography is not only poor etiquette but he believes that when his dishes appear online, it takes away "a little bit of my intellectual property".
2014 March 4, Wayne Benyon, “Are 'food porn' selfies damaging the intellectual property of chefs?”, in The Guardian
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*peh₂-
- Proto-Germanic*fōdô
- Old Englishfōda
- Middle Englishfode
- Englishfood
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂-
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰéh₂os
- Proto-Hellenic*pʰáwos
- Ancient Greekφᾰ́ος (phắos)
- Ancient Greekφῶς (phôs)
- Ancient Greekφωτο- (phōto-)
- Proto-Indo-European*gerbʰ-
- Proto-Hellenic*grə́pʰō
- Ancient Greekγρᾰ́φω (grắphō)
- Frenchphotographie
- Englishphotography
- Englishfoodtography
Blend of food + photography.
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foodtography. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foodtography
“foodtography.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foodtography. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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