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 books Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Foods and Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine. She focuses on the history of food as a way to access the stories of diverse Americans. Endangered Eating was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and was named one of the Best Books of 2023 by Amazon’s Editors, Food & Wine, and Adam Gopnik on the Milk Street podcast. It was a finalist for the Nach Waxman Prize for Food & Drink Scholarship and winner of the Ohioana Library Book Prize for Nonfiction. Lohman’s work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and NPR. Lohman has lectured across the country, from the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington, DC to The Culinary Historians of Southern California
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.
