The Savory and the Stylish

Photograph (and below photograph) by Alice Taranto
Hand-made bread (not from my hands, though)

Many style bloggers have double obsessions as gourmets and as followers of fashion. Take, for example, Emily of Cupcakes and Cashmere (food post and fashion post) or Judy Aldridge of Atlantis Home (food post and fashion post). Both blogs feature high quality and high taste (pun intended) images of both the savory and the stylish. This post is more of an experiment in food photography than AZD's breaking into the food/fashion blogosphere.To me, this combo is summer personified (tricolore salad on a sandwich with coarse sea salt, pepper, "EVOO," and balsamic vinegar) and the tomatoes here that I photographed are a decidedly summery red - no watered down, wimpy, white tomatoes during August! The basil is from our home plant (more like mini-forest - it kind of went wild in the heat/rain), and the mozzarella is that really legit, soft, flavorful kind that comes all twisty wrapped in plastic.

Taking these photos made me further realize that food photography is really difficult! No matter how enticing something may look in real life, it can look quite unpalatable in the shot. I'll have to experiment with this further...

Alice
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The Savory and the Stylish