Platescape

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The visual arrangement of food on a plate and the accompanying utensils, etc., regarded as a factor in the choices people make about their food intake.

    "The possible non-places in platescapes could possibly have to do with objects that certainly are designed to carry or contain food but lack meaning and attachment."

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"The possible non-places in platescapes could possibly have to do with objects that certainly are designed to carry or contain food but lack meaning and attachment."

Etymology

From plate + -scape, introduced in a 2007 paper by Jeffery Sobal and Brian Wansink.

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