leather-bound tome is an immediate warning that the food likely isn't going to be very good. Just like how seeing pictures on a menu might send you running, an overly long restaurant menu should ...

"It looks really good to me and i would be tempted to buy ... But now research is showing that if you look at photos of foods you crave, over and over, you could actually eat less of them.

Bad food pictures really took off last November when Martha Stewart became a lightning rod after she posted a series of unappetizing pictures to Twitter. Iceberg wedge with homemade Russian dressing.