My contribution to Distant Future Utopias, now available for purchase for $29.99. Has instagram influenced what you get served at your local hot new restaurant? In this piece, I discuss how the proliferation of food images on Instagram has changed the way in which restaurants prepare their food.

“The pernicious thing about AirSpace isn’t that it makes everything bad. It is that it makes everything the same. When you eat in AirSpace, what you’re eating is Instagram-flavored food. Instagram-flavored food comes artfully arranged and dripping with sauce. It’s minimalist. It’s maximalist. It’s dessert, breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner, a snack, a drink, spicy, sweet, sour, vegan, CBD-infused, a burger, a bowl, open late, deep-fried, steamed, raw, whatever you want, whenever you want. It just all tastes like Instagram.”