Author: L
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San Francisco Ferry Building Marketplace
Apparently, all the cool kids are doing it. Visiting the San Francisco Ferry Building Marketplace, or at least picking up the new cookbook by the fantastically witty Peggy Knickerbocker and…
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Photo Contest: Feed Your Imagination
The Guardian Observer, along with Seeds of Change, is hosting a food photography competition with prizes up to £10,000. The goal is to impress the judges with your creativity, and…
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Apple and Rhubarb Shortcake
Remember the rhubarb and apples from yesterdays post? They are back. And as I had suspected, it wasn’t particularly hard to find a recipe that sounded good to me to…
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Eating Local: Parsnip and Potato Something-or-Other
Seattle has been gorgeous this spring… lots of sunny days with just intermittent spurts of rain to keep things from getting too dry. You’d think, with this weather, the markets…
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Small is the New Big
If you’ve ever been on a diet, you know this trick. A small plate makes the food look bigger. In food photography, this trick is one of my favorites. I…
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New Month, New Flickr Challenge…
Thanks for those of you who participated in last month’s Macro Food challenge on flickr. There were some great shots, including this gorgeous cucumber, which was perhaps my favorite. Today…
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The Inn at Langley
A couple of weeks ago, my husband took me to Whidbey Island for my birthday… we stayed at the Inn at Langley, which has gorgeous views of Puget Sound as…
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Strawberry and Lemongrass Yogurt Pops
I recently got the itch to try to make my own yogurt. My mom made yogurt when I was growing up using one of these little 4 cup yogurt incubators…
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Elsewhere: Two Fresh Roasts for the Price of One!
Oops. I am getting behind linking to my Fresh Roast posts. Last week, my primer on roasting went up hopefully making it a bit clearer to tell what stage of…
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Faking it: Tilt Shift effect in Photoshop
If you follow the general photography scene, it’s a bit hard to miss all of the recent photos that use a Photoshopped “tilt-shift” effect to make life size objects look…
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Food Styling Class: Plating, Presentation and Garnishment
Culinary Communion in West Seattle offers this new series course starting in late May. Each Monday evening for 4 weeks, students will gather to learn the key to restaurant food…
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Anthropomorphism & Food
Most of my food photography attempts to make the food look irresistibly edible. Sometimes, though, it’s more fun to simply make art. One of my favorite discoveries is when I…