Photographer Carl Warner’s “Artichokes” is a great print to have in your kitchen.
It’s earthy and calming, appropriate for all seasons, and inspires us to eat wholesome, nutrient-rich produce.
Food is so beautiful when we pause to look at it and appreciate it.
Ideas in Food is a blog where the ideas are neither boring nor predictable, like this puffed cilantro.
Aki Kamozawa and H. Alexander Talbot are bloggers as well as authors, chefs, consultants, scientists, innovators, caterers, photographers and teachers.
Kind of makes me feel lazy.
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This is what the inside of my stomach looked like after the Casserole Crazy Cook-Off. Minus the plates and stickers; I was too full to eat those.
The cook-off was fun in a competitive sort of way.
I was surprised by how seriously everyone took the competition. After they announced the winners (neither me nor one of the few people I had chatted with), may of the losers were visibly disturbed.
“Why didn’t mine win?” I overheard one woman bark at Harry Rosenblum, a judge (and co-owner of The Brooklyn Kitchen) while she severely violated his personal space. I felt bad for him, but Harry took it in stride: “Needed more flavor” he replied bluntly.
Two other brushes with fame: Emily Farris herself, the host and author of Casserole Crazy, and Cathy Erway, author of the blog Not Eating Out in New York and gracious last-minute fill-in judge. I am also indebted to Cathy for the above photo, since I was too hot and greasy to take a proper picture myself.
Tastespotting is a aggregate of superb food photography from various bloggers and food websites (quite similar to my afore-Smorgasbit Photograzing).
It declare it impossible to look at the homepage without seeing something you’re pretty sure you can’t live without making or eating very soon.
Thankfully there’s a handy “star” feature to keep track of your favorites.
Warning: when you’ve got nearly as many stars as photos on the whole site (ahem, quadruple digits?) this feature is distinctly less useful for deciding what to make next. Though even more mouthwatering.