Food Porn: A History of Images in Cooking (Online)
Taught by Sarah Lohman
Sarah Lohman is a culinary historian and the author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed book Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine. She focuses on the history of American food as a way to access stories of women, immigrants, and people of color, and to address issues of racism, sexism, and xenophobia. Her work has been featured inTheWall Street Journal andThe New York Times, as well as onAll Things Considered; and she has presented across the country, from the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington, DC to The Culinary Historians of Southern California. She is also 1/2 of the Masters of Social Gastronomy, a monthly food science and history talk at Caveat NYC, with Brainery co-founder Jonathan Soma.
Does anyone make a cookbook recipe that isn't accompanied by a photo?
Join food historian and art school graduate Sarah Lohman to explore the world of food photography. She’ll show how imagery has changed our relationship with cookbooks forever, starting with the earliest drawn diagrams of elaborate feasts.
We'll trace the parallel words of food photography as art and food photography as illustration, before the two come together to create the visceral genre of food porn. Then, we'll explore the lifestyle-documentary style of food imagery in the late 20th century and address how Instagram changed the food world.
