I once overheard someone in a restaurant say: “The calories just aren’t worth it if I can’t take a good photo for Instagram.” That’s depressing and amazing when you think that just a few years ago, the idea of people photographing their food in a restaurant would have seemed crazy.
And yet food is now one of the most popular things to post about online. In some respects this isn’t surprising because merely seeing beautiful pictures of food can make us salivate.
However, we’re now taking so many pictures of food that you can buy cameras with a specific food mode – and this is just one way that social media has transformed the way we eat.
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