When Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart was asked to describe his test for obscenity in 1964, he responded: "I know it when I see it." And for the last decade or so, the same could be said for food porn.
The phrase "food pornography" was likely coined by feminist critic Rosalind Coward in her 1984 book "Female Desire." She wrote that cooking food and presenting it beautifully is often an act of servitude and signals an "enjoyable participation in servicing others."
