the crusty sandwich

Noah Kalina Photography/Interiors

An amazing portfolio of Restaurant interiors. There is a few horrors but mostly they are all spaces I would like to experience food and beverage in.

garage goodness

I would love to see the look on my neighbors faces if they woke up and saw this as my garage door. But this is what your food looks like before a Chef pretties it up for you Mam. It would be gold!

Style your garage.

Via EAT ME DAILY.

wheres your food from?

As a Chef who is getting increasingly frustrated with all aspects of the food industry I find my self asking how did that 100 kilos of bacon I just packed away get to me? While the customer is asking “is this gluten free?” I am asking a question I believe is far more important to their well being.

Where is this from, how did it get here, was it handled humanely and with dignity?

Customers ask me for all sorts of different eggs, hard, soft, runny. Believe it or not I have had one client ask for an egg that was and I quote “not snotty”. By Sunday afternoon I will have sold 2160 eggs in various forms and no one will have asked if their eggs are free range. Not one.

Humane Slaughterhouses by Rebecca Marx makes for an interesting read.

The biggest obstacle, she feels, is quantity. “Quality and quantity are two opposing goals,” Grandin says. “But there’s a sensible balance.”

So now you know where it comes from how about doing something with it! And remember “you should not eat it if you are not prepared to kill it”

How to butcher a pig.

Both via Gourmet.

liqurious

For obvious reasons.

liqurious has posted a round up of some of their favorite drinks so far.

food photography

More images of chefs at work via the beautiful photography of glynmorgan63 on flickr.

As a chef I would say this about his work but I have been beaten to it.

MattReynolds says:
“As a cook myself, I love almost every single shot in your “cooking/ restaurant” series. It’s gritty, simple, elegant and some of your best work.
You have an eye for finding the exact moment and nailing the lighting, and it really shows through in the end photo.
Keep shooting!
- Matt Reynolds”

Here is the rest of the series of ‘Chefs‘ as I covered earlier.

Also, proving that you don’t need all the technical equipment to take great food shots is this photo from Kat n Kim.

Here is an example of my attempts at natural lighting.