platescape

English

Etymology

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

Noun

platescape (plural platescapes)

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.
   • 2018, Ricardo Bonacho, Experiencing Food, Designing Dialogues:

     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.