Vietnam Vegetable Carving

I am a sucker for produce carving. Last month, while I was on a small cruise in Halong Bay, Vietnam, the ship's talented chef gave us a quick class. I gave it a shot, but I have no plans to quit my day job.

 

Untouched Eggs

Shooting food, we strive for the same perfection that the beauty industry does. If chickens were self-conscious about their eggs you can bet the advertising and editorial industries would be giving them a complex, too.

So here are eggs, sans retouching.... but still posed very carefully, in the afternoon light. Thank you to my dear friends, Darren and Steph, and their backyard hens, who who gifted my household with these beautiful imperfect eggs.  

Plate Shop: Kimberlys Rule!

I'm totally behind in my blogging. Bad Kimberly!

A couple weeks back I had the pleasure of shooting a slideshow for Jonathan Kauffman's review of Kimberly Alter's new joint in Sausalito: Plate Shop. I'd met Kimberly a while back on a shoot for San Francisco Magazine that I was assisting for, where I earned my "chicken wrangler" badge managing her two young hens that turned out to be a little camera shy.

Plate Shop rocks. I'll leave the reviewing to Jonathan, but you should totally go. A big thank you to Kimberly and everyone there for helping me get some great shots and feeding me amazingness, fresh from the garden.

Citizen Cake

This shot didn't make it into the article but it's my favorite. That's what a photo blog is for, right? 

Locavore

My photo got lots of real estate in the paper issue of SF Weekly which made me happy (you know us photographers can really be size queens). You can still read the interwebs version here about this new Bernal Heights joint.

Beijing

On sunny [work] days there is nothing better than driving to the Outer Sunset. There's plenty of parking and a big blue ocean sparkling in front of you.

Beijing opened a second location out there, and SF Weekly sent me to snap pics for their review. The dish below wasn't even on the list of dishes to snap - and I'm not sure if it was a language barrier or the owners' enthusiasm  - but they sent this dish out first. I show it here, proudly, on their behalf.

Rice salad.

Citizen's Band

I had a grand old time snapping pics at Citizen's Band for SF Weekly this week. I'd been out there before to shoot for Pinkie's Bakery, which is under the same roof and represents half of the partnership of the operation. It's the kind of joint my friends would own. They are definitely worth a visit if you love American classics re-invented for these modern times. Mmmmmm, modern.
A slideshow can be seen here.