Caffeinated coffee shots of Blue Bottle in Williamsburg for imbibe magazine’s March/April 2012 issue, “1010 Reasons to Love Drinking in New York”.
I am beyond honored and deeply humbled to announce that I’ve been nominated for a James Beard Foundation Award, the category of Visual Storytelling for my BACK OF THE HOUSE photo essays on Craft, Keens, Savoy / Back Forty in Edible Manhattan. I can’t thank everyone involved enough, from the chefs and their crews, to all the restaurants that have let me behind the scenes over the past decade, to Edible for publishing my series for the past 5 years, and of course the James Beard Foundation, whom 7 1/2 years ago let me hang my BACK OF THE HOUSE project on their gallery walls, where I not only met my girlfriend of 7 1/2 years, but also realized I could bring a camera into the kitchen and share my POV about food and the great culinary community. With all this, it feels like I’ve already won, but we’ll see what May 4th has to bring, hopefully one of these …
Say cheese! Feta specifically, on the cover of Culture Spring 2012. Also cooked, styled, shot a few feta recipes, and let’s not forget the tomme centerfold.
“Good Enough To Eat” piece in PDN’s Emerging Photographer Spring 2012 about my time as photo editor of Edible Brooklyn and Edible Manhattan.
Thanks to Christopher Testani, Carolyn Fong, and
E. Conor Hagen for contributing photographs to the article.
Part 2 of my interview on food culture website Hogsalt, complete with my ONION JAM recipe! Great for grilled cheeses and more …
Part 1 of my interview on Hogsalt, a wonderful new website preserving food culture. Thanks Kari! Part 2 coming next week (with my Onion Jam recipe).
http://www.hogsalt.com/2012/02/food-eye-photographer%C2%A0michael-harlan-turkell/
On the first episode of THE FOOD SEEN in 2012, Caren Alpert, a San Francisco based photographer, takes a closer look at food … a much closer look. She uses a scanning electron microscope for her “terra cibus” project, magnifying the surfaces of food between ten and a thousand times, abstracting their textures, making them seems as if they were bird’s eye views of otherwordly landscapes. Table salt looks like ice floes, cauliflower resembles a canyon/chasm, fortune cookies turn into tributaries, and my favorite, cake sprinkles.
Feast your ears to THE FOOD SEEN on HeritageRadioNetwork.com, every TUESDAY at 3PM EST!
Aarón Sanchez’s Simple Food, Big Flavor: Unforgettable Mexican-Inspired Recipes from My Kitchen to Yours cookbook for Atria / Simon & Schuster was released today!
I shot and styled it, plus it was co-written by my good friend, JJ Goode.
If you’re around tomorrow, WED OCT 5th, 7PM, there’s a demo and signing at Barnes & Noble in Tribeca (97 Warren St). Come get your “Jalapeño Love” on! (*it’s a sauce base in the book)
A few of the photos/recipes from the Brooklyn Slate Lookbook Spring 2011, featuring Mile End, Umi Nom, Baked and more …
Oh, Canada. Spent last week in Montreal the Lumiere Festival, and only now have I digested enough to post my BACK OF THE HOUSE photos from a tremendous Head to Tail dinner at Chef Derek Dammann’s DNA restaurant, with Chef Chris Cosentino (of Incanto in San Francisco). Here’s the menu:
Horse heart tartare, horse fat fries, hay-oli, horse suet brioche
2 hr egg, hot blood mousse, peasant pappa, smoked eel
Lamb pluck fra diavolo
Big brain, little brain
Chocolate-n’duja ice cream, chicken candies
Quite an amazing experience, between awe-inspiring and unforgettable meals at Joe Beef, Au Pied De Cochon, and Martin Picard’s Cabane A Sucre, I’d say I’m still stuffed.
