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All that glitters...

Vishal — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:45:43 -0700

You do realise that the food only looks good, right? It's like those fantastic looking pictures they use at fast food joints, only I'm more Dogme 95 about it and don't use hairspray and laquer, but actual edible food.

Edible still doesn't mean tasty, however.

Come make food for me! Your

Maija — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 03:28:21 -0700

Come make food for me! Your cooking always looks so delicious. (Although I don't really like rucola.)

Rocket and its many names

Vishal — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 02:53:44 -0700

Rocket is, I believe, also called Arugula or Rucola and whatnot. It's a lovely spicy herb (at least the local variety is) that is a pain-in-the-ass to clean -- sand just clings to it, but hooray for salad spinners! The taste is well-worth the fifteen minutes or so it takes to clean a couple of bunches. Hopefully in less sandy parts of the world you won't have this problem. I use it in cold and warm salads, sandwiches (goes great with sausages) and even thrown in last minute into hot pasta and risotto (it wilts a little but still packs in the flavour). A lot tastier than the watery local lettuce.

I would love to see these crappy photos you speak of.

Thanks for the compliments, and now I must go and try to make prison food sexy.

Oh, and I wrote a bunch of food photography tips, but it was far too long to squeeze into a comment. I'll go slap some photos on it and post it up as its own thing tomorrow.

So, I tried taking photos of

Spyder — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:16:42 -0700

So, I tried taking photos of my last meal (haha); I plated it and everything (cilantro is such a versatile garnish), but my photos were rather lousy. I need to start employing a mini tripod of some kind (stacked books, a glass, etc.), I get bad camera shake.... and have shitty lighting too (ah, florescents).

Gonna have another go tonight after (during?) dinner.

Oh, and as usual your photos look delicious (whats in rocketsalad? looks tasty). Have you ever thought of doing cookbook photography? Youve got a knack for making the food look tasty and inviting (as opposed to many recipe books with lovely prison style photos).

Four Plates

Vishal — Wed, 30 May 2007 08:28:25 -0700