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gastroporn

noun

Enticing food imagery, typically found in books, magazines, social media , and television programs related to food and cooking.

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noungastroporn (uncountable)

uncountableEnticing food imagery, typically found in books, magazines, social media , and television programs related to food and cooking.
Half-competent amateurs quickly learn not to cook from volumes with full-page glossy gastroporn pix, because their own culinary productions will never attain such lustre.
1998 September 21, Julian Barnes, “Deceptively Simple”, in The New Yorker
Synonyms: foodporn

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nounEnticing food imagery, typically found in books, magazines, social media , and television programs related to food and cooking.

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From gastro- + porn.

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gastroporn. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gastroporn

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