Photographing Food

I just read about how people at restaurants obsessively take pictures of the food they're eating. I can't imagine how anyone would allow their dinner company to take pictures of their food. It's like recording a movie in a theater: it interrupts the experience of eating the food because you become obsessed with the pictures instead of the food. I have never seen anyone taking pictures of food in a restaurant, and I hope I never do.

Update: yesterday, since I was early for a reservation and my family had reserved the "party room," and since the appetizers were already on the table, I took a single snapshot of the dishes with my phone's camera. I was alone, though. Not even the waiters were there.