hero
n.— «A stand-in used to be the less desired food choices until the photographer was ready for the hero or the beauty and final dish.» —“Interview with Iris Richardson, Food Photographer” CookingSchools.com Apr. 19, 2002. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
What if, instead of being an inanimate object, a dictionary were alive? That’s the idea behind a lavishly illustrated new children’s book called The Dictionary Story (Bookshop|Amazon) by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. This is part of a...