{"id":11270,"date":"2015-02-20T11:21:46","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T11:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=11270"},"modified":"2015-02-20T11:21:46","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T11:21:46","slug":"should-we-take-pictures-of-food-and-wine-in-restaurants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/uncategorized\/should-we-take-pictures-of-food-and-wine-in-restaurants","title":{"rendered":"Should we take pictures of food and wine in restaurants?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love instagram and twitter. And facebook. Wouldn&#8217;t it be great if one day I didn&#8217;t need to do any proper work &#8211; just taking instagrams, writing tweets, posting to facebook. That would be epic! I am moving towards it, little by little.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s that? I heard you: this Goode chap doesn&#8217;t do any proper work anyway. OK, I get you. My work isn&#8217;t arduous by conventional standards. It would be horrifying if I had to actually do a job, like most people do.<\/p>\n<p>But I have an important question, that&#8217;s social media related. Should we be taking pictures of our food? And the wine that we drink, in restaurants?<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t a restaurant meal a time to relax, enjoy good company, and have a pleasant gastronomic experience? Isn&#8217;t it a bit vulgar to be taking a picture of the plate in front of us, when our attention should be fully focused on our companions? Shouldn&#8217;t we really have a no phones on the table policy in restaurants?<\/p>\n<p>I do love my phone, but I am getting increasingly worried about the effect that filming or photographing everything has on our actual engagement with reality. If you go to a concert or sporting event, a sizeable proportion of people are holding phones up, filming everything. For what reason? There is, I suspect, a subtle psychological process that takes place when we are behind our phones, which impacts on our involvement with the world around us. We move from being participants to observers.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I take pictures of food. I quite like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/foodanddrink\/foodanddrinknews\/11410674\/Heston-Blumenthal-puts-a-stop-to-photos-at-the-dinner-table.html\" target=\"_blank\">policy that Heston Blumenthal&#8217;s restaurants have stated<\/a>. Rather than banning the practice, they have set constraints. No flash photography. No standing up to take the picture. No shifting round the dishes. That seems like a sensible stance to take.<\/p>\n<p>And wine? Generally speaking, I don&#8217;t think you should take a picture of a bottle of wine unless you are drinking it. It just seems odd to take a picture of a grand bottle in your cellar, or in a posh wine shop, that you aren&#8217;t actually consuming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love instagram and twitter. And facebook. Wouldn&#8217;t it be great if one day I didn&#8217;t need to do any proper work &#8211; just taking instagrams, writing tweets, posting to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11271,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11270\/revisions\/11271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}