Winter needs colour, so I’ve joined forces with Cynthia Peters at her marvelous“From the Farm Cooking School” in Prince Edward County for “Sweet Love Bites”, a cupcake decorating workshop on Sun Feb 13.
food styling Ruth Gangbar photo Mark Burstyn client LCBO
Some deliciously fun things to be demonstrated will be: making chocolate leaves, creating ribbons [...]
James Tse photog
This pic of me pouring champagne for a holiday feature a few summers ago still entertains me….with a tree that only got assembled to the height needed for the crop in the picture. It’s ironic, as I look over to our own little Xmas tree at home today….being it’s just the top part [...]
Adventure is to be expected when food photography goes on location. But add a massive Muskoka snowstorm, hydro blackouts, a large and expensive prop chandelier, very steep, slippery hiking with tons of gear….and you’ve got an episode. Day 1’s lack of running water or hydro for the electric stove was made all the worse for [...]
More samples of images we captured for his premier cookbook project, Mark Mcewan’s Great Food at Home….
I still haven’t seen my copy yet, but the buzz is intriguing.
Launch party this weekend….
photography James Tse food styling Ruth Gangbar prop styling Laura Branson
Hmmm, if the launch wasn’t happening this weekend, it might have been Taste a celebration of regional cuisine [...]
The images below are two options of the well-truffled and famed Bymark Burger ( recipe here). I got to take a bite out of said burger (yes, twas bitten ) while onset with one of my all-time favourite teams of photographer James Tse , Laura Branson prop stylist, and Executive Chef Drew Ellerby (of ONE and Fabbricca) while we [...]
When people think of getting into food styling as a career, would they think of this day’s task as culinary art, or as puppetry? These (and more) fruits and their foliages are being set up as components to be digitally placed into layouts for fruit juice packages.
Photographer Jim Norton does an excellent job of 4-flavoured [...]
Something’s new at Chatelaine. Thanks for having my food styling as a part of the latest, fabulous issue with a fresh new look! This Raspberry Cream Tart is from the “Evening Garden Party” feature story in the June issue. Erika Oliviera was Consulting Art Director, Claire Tansey Food Editor, James Tse photographed the food, Michael [...]
I recently worked with photographer Edward Pond , revisiting a favourite topic of “what to grill”… for the upcoming Summer issue of Cottage Life Magazine. A succulent feast (that much I’ll say), written again by the award- winning team of David Zimmer and Jane Rodmell, winners of the Gold award in the” How-To” category at [...]
Photography projects I’m working on these days are gradually inching towards there: Summer. It’s a perk; a literal “icebreaker” for January here in T.O (and my heartfelt preference to Xmas cookie baking and turkey recipes we’re put to task to shoot during the actual Summer).
Although firmly wedged months away from grilling without parkas, we can [...]
Remarkable things can happen when the creative synergies are in the right balance, and allowed to play. You’ll hear more of the cookbook project I just was food stylist for later……but for now I am still musing about the level of professionalism Chef M.M and Chef D.E brought “to the table”. There was also the [...]