Citations:gastroporn

Noun: "enticing food imagery, typically found in books, magazines, and television programs related to food and cooking"

 * 1985 — Joanne Kates, "Fixing food that's picture perfect", The Globe and Mail, 17 January 1985:
 * If the lofty souffles of your imagination turn to slop on the plate, if the shining roasts of the gastroporn food mags turn to dull dross in your oven, don't hate yourself.
 * 1987 — House & Garden, Volume 159, page 42:
 * The photographs by Ed Carey are top-notch gastroporn.
 * 1998 — Julian Barnes, "Deceptively Simple", The New Yorker, 21 September 1998:
 * Half-competent amateurs quickly learn not to cook from volumes with full-page glossy gastroporn pix, because their own culinary productions will never attain such lustre.
 * 2006 — Steve Almond, "Death by Lobster Pad Thai: A Counter-Phobic Paean to Friendship, Crustaceans, and Oral Transcendence", in Death by Pad Thai: And Other Unforgettable Meals (ed. Douglas Bauer), Three Rivers Press (2006), ISBN 9780307494788, page 210:
 * It was like the gastroporn on the Food Network: too beautiful for our mouths.
 * 2007 — Hattie Ellis, Planet Chicken: The Shameful Story of the World's Favourite Bird, Hodder & Stroughton (2007), ISBN 9780340921876, page 5:
 * At the top of the aisle was a piece of gastroporn food photography, soft-edged and with a crash focus on the centre of the browned bird.
 * 2008 — Kathleen LeBesco & Peter Naccarato, "Introduction", in Edible Ideologies: Representing Food & Meaning, State University Press of New York (2008), ISBN 9780791472873, page 1:
 * The twentieth century has seen a boom in the industry of representing food and foodways, culminating in the present era of celebrity chef worship, culinary boot camps, lush food magazine spreads, gastroporn imagery on television and in film, stores selling nothing but cookbooks, and heavily traveled chowhound websites.
 * 2008 — David Veart, First Catch Your Weka: A Story of New Zealand Cooking, Auckland University Press (2008), ISBN 9781869404109, page 311:
 * From the late 1990s the photography gets in close for the 'gastroporn' shot in which the dish, all glistening with residue, becomes a culinary scopophiliacs delight.
 * 2009 — Jason Sheehan, Cooking Dirty: A Story of Life, Sex, Love and Death in the Kitchen, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2009), ISBN 9780374289218, page 134:
 * and The French Laundry Cookbook, which was probably one of the first gastroporn cookbooks for chefs.