French chefs rebel against 'food porn' photos

Oh good grief, have French chefs got nothing else to complain about besides delighted customers taking photos of their exquisitely arranged food before they eat it?

The only reason a chef should have to complain about when people take photos of their food, is if it isn't good.

"Food porn"? I was half expecting to see risque arrangements involving roots and vegetables. Imagine my disappointment... ;)

@ Jeff Ogrisseg

Me too...

While the French chefs should mind their own business in this case, I still do not understand why people take pictures of their dinner and post on the internet. Do you really think I care what you had? Facebook "likes" and pointless, "it lookd delicious comments" that these posts are clearly designed to encourage generally make me want to vomit.

If I want to see a photo of food I will open a cookbook.

21st century internet-based narcissism.

@Ah_so: Have you ever considered that they may have other friends who are interested in what they had? Just because you don't care, doesn't mean that everyone else doesn't. I'm always interested in finding out about new restaurants or recipes, and a lot of those I find out through social networking. If you have such a problem with people like that, why not just block them from your news feed instead of belittling others for doing something that makes them happy.

This is what you get when gastronomy meets technology. Too bad my smart phone is not smart enough to replicate the dish at home, recipe and all.

"And not all chefs are so unwelcoming to the craze for food photos." - and not all chefs are pompous control freaks . . .

Frankly, it hardly matters as long as other diners aren't shown. Privacy is the sole responsibility of the owner-operator. 99.9% of the time no one notices. It isn't as if someone were shouting, "PHOTOGRAPHY! FOOD PHOTOGRAPHY!"

If you enjoy your meal, and the restaurant, and you want to take a discrete photo, for goodness sake, the restaurant should have better things to do than study the dinners for illegal photography.

To the "chefs" who cry 'intellectual property'? Are you kidding? Hey, patrons, leave the damn flash off. some places have a simple 'no flash photography' policy. All this fuss from the chef police over an event that takes thirty seconds.

I limit my food photography to nyotaizushi.

Come on, it only takes 2 seconds to take a photo.

Good - this time I agree with the Frenchies... I can't possible dislike anything more than the annoying flashes and squeaks J-Airhead-Girls do while taking idiotic pictures and posting them online while I try to enjoy my dinner...

Tokyo has more world-renonwed 'French' restaurants than all of France, so the potentially irritated chefs here will likely be Japanese or one of those transplanted French implants.

But it's so typically petty and mean spirited of them to worry about such absurd issues as taking a photo of what you ate!

Eat sushi - it's better for you.