Chicago Tribune article on food blog photography. This is a very good article on the subject, with quotes from local chefs Grant Achatz and Gale Gand on photography in their restaurants. The reporter seems to have omitted one other local food blog from the list they offer.
“As the amuse-bouche (a tiny cone filled with salmon tartare) arrived, he felt sheepish about whipping out his camera. Then he noticed a woman at another table ostentatiously snapping pictures. Emboldened, he pulled out his camera in time for the first course–sea urchin with water chestnuts, pea shoots and black truffle coulis. Fast-forward a few days. Armato was posting The French Laundry photos on his food blog, Skillet Doux. He has pictures of everything but the salmon cone, so he looked for a photo of it on the Web in the off-chance another foodie had snapped one. Amazingly, one had.”
I just happen to have one too. (Although this one is from Thomas Keller’s other place, Per Se)
“For chefs, this can be immensely flattering. But it can also be a problem. Photographed well, gnocchi can look like pillows of pasta perfection. Photographed poorly, they can look like segments of a fattened albino caterpillar, as Terragusto’s gnocchi recently did on foodie message board LTHForum.com.”
I’ve got one of those too. Gnocchi ala Cesare, from Club Lago.
(The links above are mine, once again, old media is afraid of linking.)