Previsualisation
This article sums it up perfectly.
http://mishagregorymacaw.com/?s=previsualization
To quote from this 
This is the idea, as I understand it, that upon viewing the subject to be photographed, a photographer should have a definite and complete vision of what the final print will look like even before the shutter is pressed.  With this knowledge, the photographer can optimize each step of the photographic process along the way towards the goal of achieving the previsualized print.  Previsualization is largely attributed to the giant of American photography, Ansel Adams, and is championed by many as the gold standard of how a photographer should operate.
Have you heard of Ansel Adams? He is an important man in the history  and progress of the photographic art. See http://www.grahamclarkphoto.com/how-to-pre-visualize-a-photograph-like-ansel-adams/ for few tips.
His most famous photograph is Moonrise Hernandez New Mexico seen from the link below
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nNPwzEhXYdM/Uf_E9TGSWkI/AAAAAAAAixA/D9XHMllufcg/s1600/Ansel+Adams+-+Moonrise,+Hernandez,+New+Mexico.jpg
He invented previsualistion and the zone system for exposure.
Food Photography is, in my opinion, a form of Still Life Photography. This all need Previsualistion to set up the items ot props in an appropriate manner.
More on Photography can be seen on this BBC site http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1r8gLTjKDdsRQKn6p6QZKPS/snap-happy