FOOD STYLING IS NOT ALWAYS A WALK IN THE PARK

Some days there are sidewalk shoots and yes in Manhattan

and sprinkle in some paparazzi... it is a recipe for "if nothing else my job is never dull" ...so the best i can do is to stay out of the way ...and...oh ...by the way.... my work station is on the other side of the mayhem ...let me thru ...food stylist coming thru 

FOURTH OF JULY IN MAY PART 2

happy fourth to everyone... and these are the final shoots

CBS THE EARLY SHOW AND MATT AND TED LEE

Not only are the Lee brothers talented chefs and cookbook authors ..... they are the some of the nicest people you could meet... congrat to them .... the International Association of Culinary Professionals named "Simple, Fresh, Southern" best American cookbook of the year.....

and their menu for chef on a shoestring was a summer favorite for me  ... but when they told me they were going to serve blackened potato salad ... bells went off in my head   OMG..... any chef that lived during the 1980's ( boy that dates me ) .....the fashion was awful, the hair styles were ridiculous and every restaurant patron wanted everything blackened .....so smoking cast iron skillets choked many a chef until the word "blackened " made your skin crawl........ BUT i am now a convert the blackened potato salad was the bomb.... look it up on the CBS site and give it a try ... and if you can... cook it in the skillet or flat top on the grill but do not let the skillet overheat it  could cause a grease fire .... blackened -good... on fire -very bad... but that will keep the smoke outside.....  and can i just say    YUMMY 

FOURTH OF JULY IN MAY

I shot a july 4th theme with a photog i love in may..... ( i know this should have been posted ages ago but life got in the way ) ... the most interesting thing was the custom background..... we were able to shoot in the studio yet  the picture looked like we were on location . ....   Avics produced the image and then output the background for the shoot.. ...as soon as i get finished photos i will post them .. but check out http://avicsblog.com/   for more information on the background..