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foodstagramming

foodstagramming noun: the act of posting photos of food to Instagram. Also the present participle and gerund of foodstagram.

Noun

foodstagramming (uncountable)

  1. (Internet) The act of posting photos of food to Instagram.
    • Dayton maintains the policy isn’t designed to prohibit all foodstagramming.2013 February 6, Aimee Blanchette, “Local chefs say their food is camera-ready”, in Star Tribune, volume XXXI, number 308, page E10
    • How ‘foodstagramming’ has changed the way we deal with our grub writes James P. Hall.[…]At the same time, certain restaurants in the U.S. and France have banned customers from taking pictures of their dishes, or “foodstagramming,” as it has become known.[…]Pizza tops the list when it comes to...2016 November 9, James P. Hall, “Bringing our food into focus”, in Vancouver Sun, page C7

Also used as

foodstagramming is also the present participle and gerund of foodstagram.

Examples of foodstagramming in a sentence

  • How ‘foodstagramming’ has changed the way we deal with our grub writes James P.2016 November 9, James P. Hall, “Bringing our food into focus”, in Vancouver Sun, page C7:
  • Nowhere as in the current era of food porn and foodstagramming, star-chefs and cooking TV show, can the short-circuit between seeing and tasting be observed.2018, Andrea Pavoni, “Introduction”, in Andrea Pavoni, Danilo Mandic, Caterina Nirta, Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, editors, Taste...
  • On the one hand, the trend of “foodstagramming” is still going strong, with 69 per cent of millennials capturing the perfect foodie snap before eating.2019 May 22, Robert Phelps, “Enjoy great food in sustainable packaging”, in Vancouver Sun, page A11:
  • Despite the popularity of foodstagramming, the studies about this social phenomenon are rare, with little if any academic literature reporting on it to date (Wong et al., 2019).2022, Sevinc Goktepe, Merve Aydogan Cifci, Mehmet Altug Sahin, “Sharing photos of food traveler experiences: a case study of...

Questions about foodstagramming

What does foodstagramming mean?
Foodstagramming means the act of posting photos of food to Instagram.
How do you use foodstagramming in a sentence?
How ‘foodstagramming’ has changed the way we deal with our grub writes James P.
What part of speech is foodstagramming?
Foodstagramming is a noun.

Words near foodstagramming in the dictionary

  1. foodsies
  2. foodstagram
  3. foodstagrammed
  4. foodstagrammer
  5. foodstagrammers
  6. foodstagramming
  7. foodstagrams
  8. foodstall
  9. foodstalls
  10. foodstore
  11. foodstores

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