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A Chance to go to the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen
Normally I don’t enter a ton of cooking contests, mostly because I don’t make the time, but PAMA Liqueur sent us an email about about “Cooking with PAMA Contest” with the Grand Prize winner receiving a trip for 2 to the 2010 FOOD & WINE Classic in Aspen. Which, if any of you have heard about the Food & Wine Classic, it’s pretty foodie-tastic.
If you are feeling ambitious and like pomegranate liqueur-here is the nitty gritty:
-Create a recipe of your own using at least 3 tablespoons of Pama pomegranate liqueur. It can be in an appetizer, dessert or drink.
-Get official rules and submit your recipe and photo to Pama Pomegranate Liqueur on their Facebook page: www.facebook.com/pamaliqueur
-Enter by November 16
Above Photo by Joe M500
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Oktoberfest
I used to work at a German pub and instead of celebrating Oktoberfest every fall, we celebrated it all year round. Patrons would sit at long wooden tables, drinking steins of beer in a quaint pub that reeked of slow cooked sauerkraut and hot pretzels, and to every regular at the bar, they wouldn’t have it any other way.
Of course things always got a little crazier at the end of September and the beginning of October when the entire pub was decorated in blue and white checkered signs and the owner would don lederhosen and tap a wooden barrel keg of beer to celebrate Oktoberfest.
Now, since I am no longer a bar maid, I get enjoy a bratwurst with a tall pilsner on the other side of the bar for a change. Perhaps I’ll even make my own soft pretzels and perfume my house with slow cooked sauerkraut to celebrate! Suddenly my mouth is already watering thinking about the tang of vinegary cabbage.
Feeling inspired to celebrate?
German Fare You Can Make at Home
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When Foodies and Photographers Come Together
Last Friday, a group of 75 passionate food lovers, photographers, chefs and food stylists came together for FoodSnap! an event put together by Keren Brown Media and Foodista.
It didn’t matter if you only had a point and shoot camera or zero experience behind the lens, eight other photographers and food stylists were right there holding reflectors, white cards and offering tips to help you capture the best shot. Chef Wayne Johnson from Andaluca catered lunch for the event and several other vendors provided delicious offerings, including Kathy Casey who provided the attendees with two FoodSnap! signature edible cocktail gelees; pomegranate rosemary and elderberry and cucumber. The gelees were just as beautiful as they were delicious.
Here is Keren Brown holding a tray of Kathy Casey’s Pomegranate Rosemary Gelees
Guest of honor, Lou Manna, educated, entertained and inspired us all to take better pictures in general, not just of our dishes.
Pictured above is Karlyn, Sheri, Lou, Barnaby, Keren and Melissa
Lou started us off with his basic recipe for food photography (excerpted from Food Arts – July/Aug 2007 issue):
- Start with a full helping of the camera manual. Lou says your camera’s manual is like a cookbook that will help you find the key ingredients of your camera.
- Think grey. Your camera’s light meter is calibrated to measure grey, so using a grey card to meter the reflected light or an incident meter to meter the light falling on the subject will help give you the correct exposure.
- Think white. Be aware of the White Balance setting on your camera. Do your photos often have that yellow, green or blue tint? Auto White Balance doesn’t always work; you can set it manually or take a Custom White Balance to brighten the color of your photo.
- Think Right. In the Western world we read from left to right, so it makes sense that our eyes also scan a photo the same way. Lou says there are some simple rules of good composition: a spiral composition that leads your eye clockwise; and the Rule of Thirds, where you divide your frame into a tic-tac-toe design and place your subject at one of those intersecting points.
- Serve with the proper resolution. Use some type of photo editing software, such as Adobe Photoshop, and as Lou puts it, “cook” your photos to enhance their “visual flavor.” Set the digital oven to 300dpi with an image size of at least 5×7 in a jpeg format. “Don’t forget to meta tag your photos, use keywords, write captions, and use a descriptive file name.”
For more information and workshops check out and join Lou’s social network DigitalFoodPhotography
If you’re looking for an excellent, informative photography book, check out Lou’s Digital Food Photography book available on Amazon.com:
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Next Up for Drinking Lessons Robert Hess
Drinking Lessons, a Night School event continues this Sunday, September 20th with Robert Hess behind the bar at the Sorrento Hotel in Seattle. At 6 p.m. and again at 8 p.m. Hess will mix, muddle and stir for 24 lucky attendees sitting around the smooth mahogany bar at the Hunt Club that is inside the swanky Sorrento Hotel.
Seattlite Robert Hess is founder of the Chanticleer Society, author of The Essential Bartender’s Guide: How to Make Truly Great Cocktails and operator of Drink Boy.com.
Want to go? Email nightschool@hotelsorrento.com for reservations.
Can’t go but want to follow via the virtual bar? Go to http://www.foodista.com/nightschool/ on Sunday night!
Cheers!
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Lights Camera Action
We are counting down the days to FoodSnap! an all-day food photography and food styling event happening this Friday, September 18th at George Town Studios in Seattle, Washington. The event has sold out, but you can follow along with us on Twitter the day of the event and stay tuned for a FoodSnap! round up blog post with highlighted tips and secrets we will have learned from the pros that you can implement at home with a simple point and shoot camera.
Here’s the list of food photographers and food stylists who will be sharing with us their magic bag of tricks!
Lou Manna
Lara Ferroni
Rina Jordan
Barry Wong
Charity Burggraaf
Kevin Fry
Tyler Rebman
Danielle Leavell
Jonathan Shmidt
Kathryn Barnard
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Friday Fun Links
Above Photo by Summerrunner2009
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FoodSnap Food Photography Workshop
Foodsnap! – a collaboration between Foodista and Keren Brown Media – is a full-day food photography workshop lead by Lou Manna, www.LouTheMan.com, award-winning Olympus Visionary and New York Times photojournalist, commercial photographer, educator and author of Digital Food Photography with over 30 years of experience.
Lou will lead the workshop with the professional assistance of Seattle’s top food photographers, Lara Ferroni – www.platesandpacks.com and Rina Jordan – www.rinajordanphotography.com, as well as other well-known Seattle photographers and stylists.
Tickets are now available on Brown Paper Tickets. Register before it’s sold out!
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| Tags: | food photography • food styling • foodsnap • keren brown • lou manna • Photography |
Night School
Oh, do we have some cool things about to happen here in Seattle! An exciting new artsy-literary-food-cocktail series called Night School will kick off next Tuesday, August 18, at The Sorrento Hotel. Night School is a collaboration between The Sorrento, Michael Hebb, an array of intellectuals, artists, writers, filmmakers, mixologists, chefs and the leading cultural institutions in the Northwest.
The Sorrento opened in 1909, just before the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition, a world’s fair that was held in Seattle to highlight the development of the Northwest. It was the first and most luxurious boutique hotel in the Northwest – the place where the well-heeled came to stay. People gathered in the opulent mahogany-paneled Fireside Room to hear music, poetry and conversations.
The series begins with Drinking Lessons, a Night School event. Twice a month the Sorrento Hotel will be hosting one of the countries leading liquor savants and dedicating the bar at the Hunt Club to an investigation of the American cocktail. Invitations have been extended to members of a small group of extraordinary bartenders, mixologists, and distillers that are re-shaping the American cocktail. Many have called this new school of mixology a “revolution” – regardless of terminology something very interesting is afoot and we are putting ourselves smack dab in the middle of the action. Twelve Drinking Lesson guests can expect an animated two-hour lesson in the preparation and history of three distinct cocktails.
In an effort to not only imbibe, but also to document the new American cocktail, Night School is partnering with Foodista. We will have staff on hand at all Drinking Lesson events to document the recipes, transcribe them to the web in real time, and create a web-based event out of the proceedings so that people around the globe can take part in the intimate experience at the bar. More information to come at foodista.com/nightschool.
First up at the bar is Ryan Magarian, President Liquid Relations/Co-Founder Aviation Gin. In his years “behind the stick” and on the consulting front, Ryan has received a nomination as Best Bartender in the city of Portland (Citysearch; 2000), was named Best Bartender in Seattle (Seattle Magazine; 2002), received a coveted Tastemaker Award (Food and Wine Magazine; 2004) and, most recently, was tapped as Seattle’s Best Mixologist (Seattle Weekly; 2005). Ryan’s recipes have garnered notice in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Food and Wine, Bon Appetit, People Magazine, US Weekly, Men’s’ Health, Wallpaper, Food Arts, Fit Pregnancy, The LA Times, The San Francisco Chronicle…Come see him Monday, August 18, at 5:30pm and 8pm. Email nightschool@hotelsorrento.com for reservations, or follow along live on the Web!
More cool stuff to come!
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Take a Bite Out of Shark Week
In case you hadn’t already heard this week is Shark Week! Each year the Discovery Channel hosts a week-long series of feature television programs dedicated to sharks.
Since we oppose the eating of our finned friends, we’ve whipped up these undersea treats to increase your viewing pleasure. Quick confession, I’ve never actually watched Shark Week, but with friends and family in a feeding frenzy over sharks, I just had to plan a little party menu.
Serve up some Ben & Jerry’s Phish Food for dessert!
Foodista CEO, Barnaby Dorfman, swimming with sharks in Honduras (watch those fingers!)
Other great shark week recipes on the high seas:
Strawberry Sharkcakes from LemonBasil
Host a fun shark party from AmazingMoms
Are you hosting a shark week party? What do you plan to serve?
Above Photo: StormyDog
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| Tags: | discovery channel • shark food • shark week • sharks |
Foodista Hits 3000 Followers on Twitter
Foodista is now connected to over 3,000 people on Twitter who are passionate about food and cooking! Our three-thousandth follower was Lorna Yee from The Cookbook Chronicles (check out her blog, it’s gorgeous!) Thanks, Lorna!
For those of you not familiar with Twitter it’s a real-time short messaging service that works over various devices and networks. What does that mean? That means you can get notified of breaking news from the sources you are most interested in, from friends and family to world news. Or, from Foodista!
We look forward to discovering, learning, and connecting with more of you out there! If you want to follow us on Twitter click here.
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