Food Porn

So I read an article the other day
http://www.re-nest.com/re-nest/at-on/at-on-the-lost-art-of-cookingmichael-pollan-in-the-new-york-times-7292009-091911

which said we are all watching *more* food shows/etc but actually cooking less. I blame Food Porn (thanks for the image Anthony Bourdain). We all love food porn in all its various forms. Talking about it (the chocolate was molten and oozed from the cookies), watching it (10,000 cooking programs are proof of that), as well as flipping through it (cookbooks? - how many have a collection of these). Something about the primal language of the body speaks to the eye candy of food products. We even participate in food porn when we go out to eat - but like all porn its so much more fun when we don't have to make it ourselves. I think the work involved in creating your own foods speaks to other things within us, but takes away from the insta-gratification/illusion that is food porn. Good thing cooking/baking is just as primal :)