Christmas brings a lot of opportunities to socialize and throw parties. Whether throwing a party of just going to one, I like to have a few things that I can cook pretty easily in case I need to host people … Continue reading
I’m going to go on record to state that I find store-bought egg nog to be of the devil. It’s pure evil in a carton, the Beelzebub of beverages. The reason I know this to be true is that I … Continue reading
Chez Pim is again heading up efforts for Menu For Hope.  Please consider bidding on items to help raise money for a very worthy cause. If you’d like to see what the items are, www.chezpim.com has the list! (From Chez … Continue reading
Lesson 4 starts pushing us down the path of thinking about the subject of our photos instead of how we’ve set up our things around the subject. Previous lessons were about settings on the camera and lighting, but this time … Continue reading
This is getting to be a lot of fun. Nika’s lessons are building on each other, and I already notice improvements in my photos. This week’s topic is Composition, which should start helping those of us that don’t quite put … Continue reading
This is the review post of the third week of our Food Photography 101 series, in Nika’s words. As was previously the case, several people contributed their results to the Food Photo 101 flickr pool. This week’s contributors were: Curt … Continue reading
The nominations have begun for the 2007 Food Blog Awards, hosted by the Well Fed Network. You can nominate your favorite food blog in one or more of 14 categories from now through December 5. Once the nominations are closed, … Continue reading
I’ve done maybe 1 or 2 web/blog ‘tag you’re it’ type things in the past, but I’ve kind of stopped doing a lot of that stuff. No one cares that my favorite movie is Bed Time for Bonzo (it’s not… … Continue reading
Lesson 3 is all about depth of field (DOF). One thing I’ve noticed in looking at food photos is that really shallow DOF is used a LOT with food (sometimes too much, I think). However, it can be used to … Continue reading
After a well deserved holiday break, here were are at Lesson 3 of Food Photo 101! I peeked at Nika’s photos for this and had a good idea that we were going to do one of the topics I’ve really … Continue reading
I was contacted last week by a Chef’s For Humanity, an organization founded by Cat Cora (you might know her from Iron Chef America). The goal of the group is to gather culinary professionals and educations to fight hunger around … Continue reading
or My Favorite Thing My Wife Makes For Me That I Eat Too Much Of Too Quickly. But that title was too long, I thought. I do most of the cooking around hte house, but my wife does make a … Continue reading