Food Porn

            Sarah Gim offers Internet users a website where they can click on images of food. Recipes are often posted alongside these dishes, which are dressed up to look delectable. The word “photograph” does not seem to do justice. Viewers can drool as their gaze lingers on the images.

            Guess what this site and sites like it are called in our Internet culture’s current vernacular? Food porn.

            Only in a country as sensual and affluent as the United States can citizens elevate eating to an expression of lust in flesh.

            I was surprised when I looked at how many times the Bible talks about gluttony. Here is one, “Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat, for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags” (Prov. 23:20-21.) ESV

            The way we treat food is an external manifestation of what lies in our hearts.

            Source: “Los Angeles Times” March 31, 2011