There have been amateur photos of everything from crimes being committed to mountains to ladies to flowers that have been lovely, arresting, striking. But there has not been one single amateur picture of food on a social media site that does not look like a pile of grey-beige recycled meatloaf.

Curated by Curt Hopkins and Jon Mitchell. It began with this story.

Amateur Food Porn Has Got To Stop

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The Gallery of Regrettable Food

Amateur Food Porn is not new. Well, it is new in the sense that only now has the combination of technology and self-regard come to pass that is necessary for millions of talentless non-specialists to pollute your eyesholes with their pièces de résistance. But it has an ancestor in the “poorly photographed foodstuffs and horrid recipes” of the 1940s-1960s, covered in James Lileks’ masterwork. 

Jan 30 2012
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