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Warm Fig, Apple and Gorgonzola Flatbread

October 29, 2008

(click on photo for a set of 9 additional step-by-step photos on how I got this money shot)
While I love to make my own pizza or flatbread dough from scratch, sometimes I just don’t feel like getting my hands all messy with dough. I cheat a lot and buy packaged flatbreads from the supermarket and [...]

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Lamb Chops with Curried Pears

October 1, 2008

See shot-by-shot commentary of photos that led up to the money shot.

Rock Star Chef Kerry Simon
A couple of weeks ago during a trip to Los Angeles, I bumped into rock star chef Kerry Simon at every kitchen fanatic’s dream bookstore, The Cook’s Library. What elevates Kerry to rock star status? Well, how about the fact [...]

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Chinese Chicken Salad

September 22, 2008

(click on photo for shot-by-shot food styling and photography analysis of some of the photos that led up to the “money shot”)
Chinese restaurants in China don’t really have Chinese Chicken Salad on their menus, it’s a creation of Chinese-American restaurants! According to Cecilia Chiang, author of The Seventh Daughter: My Culinary Journey from Beijing to [...]

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Need Food Fluffer Desperately!

May 22, 2008

I’m working on a photograph for the cookbook, Grilled Pineapple with Chocolate Coconut Rum Sauce. And thought I would take a photo of me holding the skewers for the cookbook. It didn’t quite work out, but come take a look at the little video…

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Another one bites the dust…

May 15, 2008

Instead of showing you some the of photos that are going into the book, I thought I’d show you one that isn’t. This is a photo of Indonesian Beef Satay with Peanut Sauce. I do looooove the photo, however, I’ll have to re-shoot…

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