gastropornography.com

The interesting defition given by Urban Dictionary to “gastro porn” is “a book or magazine with pictures of food so good it makes you say “more, yes, GIVE IT TO ME!!!” and then feel guilty just for looking at it”.

More in general, the ubiquitousness of glossy pictures of food make them look no longer as an anticipation of the real food, but as a object of desire by themselves, exactly as sexual pornography is often not an anticipation of real sex but a substitute for it.