Foodspotting

Have you tried the new iPhone Foodspotting app? It allows you to browse through people’s photos of dishes at nearby restaurants and recommends actual menu items. You don’t just read the restaurant’s name and random reviews; you actually SEE the meals people have tried and loved. I just downloaded it, but it's already insanely addictive…and is making me hungry right now.

Taking photos of your food is a popular trend these days…and has been for a while now. Remember Tucker Shaw, the guy who photographed every bite, snack and meal he ate each day in 2004? His book Everything I Ate: A Year in the Life of My Mouth, was a fascinating meal memoir before the days of iPhones and Instagram.

As a side note, my best friend Jeanne just returned from a grand tour of Europe and when she came back, she posted an entire food photo album on Facebook solely of some meals she ate. I was drooling over the Italian dried figs, Belgium waffles and Greek baklava (that lucky girl)! At the top is her plate of calamari and French fries in Greece, where she says the "food defeated us. That was the fullest I'd ever been." :) 

*Photos by Jeanne McAteer