Lone Prairie Magazine

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Food

The hidden secret behind food porn.

Everybody is trying to sell you their top-secret cookie. It doesn't exist.

Julie R. Neidlinger
Jan 31, 2026
∙ Paid

I worked as a pastry chef for three years, and I’m going to let you in on a little secret: there are only so many ways you can make a chocolate chip cookie.

Social media has perverted our relationship with food.

An ordinary thing became a celebrity because we take pictures of food. We share pictures of food. We drool over pictures of food. We comment on …

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