Cole is taking Food Science this semester, and one of her projects was to create a small book of family recipes. She’s probably the only one in her class that has a parent that is a food photographer, as well as a family cookbook that is already online. Lucky kid! And, lucky me, because we got to spend quite a bit of time cooking together, something that she hasn’t been that interested in before. While Cole has always had a great appreciation of good food, it’s always been more about eating it than making it herself.

I live in a world where I don’t think much about the prices of food. Much of the food that we have around the house is left-over from some photo shoot I’ve done and in that world, all I’m worried about is whether it is the right product and whether it looks great. Another large [...]

Tonight I was supposed to be cooking snails. Or spot prawns. Or rabbit. Or one of many other dishes that I can’t quite tell you about yet. What I can tell you is that there is a lot going on. And this recipe isn’t supposed to be one of them.

Jack, to you. It’s Dad to me. And this is another recipe from my family cookbook. My dad was never afraid to get into the kitchen, and when he cooks, we always know we’ll get something good. His specialties have always been breads… hand-pressed tortillas and homemade white or wheat loaves. He’d hate the no [...]