I spend the last two days at a photo shoot, for food, with foodies. Heaven. How is it work to sit in a test kitchen, talking about food and making it look really pretty? It's not. I mean, it is! It's really hard work, ahem, REALLY hard!!
It's really amazing to watch everyone at work, from the talented and lovely prop stylist Gerri Williams, to the smart and gifted food stylist Margarette Adams who had her assistant Lara pluck out all the juiciest raisins from three giant containers - ensuring we had the most beautiful food. And our photographer Mary Ellen Bartley, what a joy. Aside from being lots of fun to be around, she's an amazing photographer who lives in the Hamptons (sigh!) and is working on some really interesting side projects.
I got tons of food to bring home, and with our last CSA pickup being yesterday my fridge is busting at the seams...I need to start a catering business or something - what else is there to do with all this food??
3 comments:
so cool. but i hear most food for food shoots aren't really so edible by the end. true?
re: all your extra food, please tell me you're not like the chef in my life, and that you actually will freeze things sometimes? i freeze everything! it's definitely a point of conflict in our kitchen!
Lyss, I freeze EVERYTHING. My grandmother taught me well - I try not to let anything go to waste, even though it's inevitable sometimes.
And you're right about food shoots - but we got lucky with this one, lots of salads and vegetables.. AND cupcakes. Hello dessert!!
Missed you this weekend! xo
Being at a food shoot does sound simply delicious for the eyes! I love how you brought us there too, so we get to see the behind-the-scenes action.
Fun to see the Manhattan skyscrapers in the background -- and it makes you realize how very real all those gorgeous food spreads in magazines really are.
Nicole: we're waiting for your concoctions to be featured!
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