Top chefs crack down on‘food porn

Food journalist Camille Labro praised
Alexandre Gauthier's creations on social
media
Two Michelin-starred French chefs are
cracking down on customers who take
photographs of their food, it's been reported.
Gilles Goujon, who runs the three-starred
L'Auberge du vieux puits restaurant in
Fontjoncouse in southern France, says it is
poor etiquette to take photos of food, and
more importantly, every time his creations
appear on social networks it "takes away the
surprise, and a little bit of my intellectual
property", news website France TV Info

reports.
Another chef, Alexandre Gauthier of the
Grenouillere restaurant in the northern French
town of La Madelaine-sous-Montreuil, has
gone as far as to add a "no cameras" logo to
his menu - although photography isn't strictly
banned there.
Gauthier lamented the fact that customers
now take pictures of the food rather than the
people they are dining with. "Before, they were
pictures of family, grandmother, and now we
take pictures of food… We tweet, we like, we
respond to comments, and the dish is cold."
But not all fine dining establishments take the
same view - some have even been known to
offer food photography courses.