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I have to start this post by going over an email exchange I recently had with a reader. I think it was quite enlightening on both sides from various reasons. He sent me a message asking if there was...
Registration for the 2 day Food Photography & Styling Workshop in Birmingham is now open! To register, please visit HERE. We are so excited to be able to bring this one to you and to...
Have you ever wished you had someone explain in an easy way how to tell a visual story through a photograph? How to work with natural light, wherever you are? How to diffuse and bounce, highlight and...
Buzz. Buzz. Buzz. That pretty much sums up the state of my brain when Friday came around. And fried. The word I'd use if asked how my head felt. The last few weeks have been pretty packed and at the...
Picking back up where I left off... almost a month ago. I never intended to let that much time go by in between my posts but "busy" took a hold of me and would not let go. Most of my April was...
My life in Birmingham is nothing but a series of first. Fall. Winter. Friday nights. Weekends. Dinner with friends. Neighborhood. All a first. Living a long distance relationship with my husband....
For those of you who know a little about me, even just a little, you have probably heard me say many times that I don't eat breakfast. And it's true. Somewhat. If I don't eat a little something...
A little update: the workshop that I am teaching with food stylist Tami Hardeman and prop stylist Mindi Shapiro is selling fast and we only have two spots available. If you are interested in more...
Registration for the 2 day Food Photography & Styling Workshop in Atlanta is now open! To register, please visit HERE. We are so excited to be able to bring this one to you and to share our...
Have you ever wished you had someone explain in an easy way what aperture is? Depth of field? How to diffuse and bounce, highlight and contrast in the best way possible? Have you ever wondered...
Yesterday, I packed a change of clothes, the 16 year-old pup and we headed down to Charleston for the weekend. I almost said, "home to Charleston" but home has become this "in between" where my heart...
Cooking for one can be challenging. Not because recipes are often written for 4 or 6. For me they are a fast realization that I can't share my favorite things with my mate. During the week, I live of...
So, this long distance relationship I am in with my very own husband is working alright by most standards. It's long, afar, with very short weekends here and there but we have, without even saying it...
I don't think I could have enjoyed making these Apple Cinnamon And Walnut Cakes more than this weekend. Rainy and grey weather, still getting over a bad cold and terrible news about someone I loved...
When my husband drove into town this past weekend, I don't think he expected to find his wife coughing, well hacking away would be more appropriate, and bent over from the pain felt in every rib and...
Very few of us can live on salad alone. Or soup. I know I can't. Although, after the indulgences of the holidays, we all felt a little need to detox. With my parents staying with me in Birmingham...
I have had the images for this post up and ready for words for about a week now. It's not that I can't find the words to go along. It's just that I am ever near long enough the computer to sit down...
I love reading other people's reflections and thoughts on their year gone by. With less time to read blogs and updates as often as before, end of the year recaps allow me to catch up on their...
It's been a long time coming and took a little bit of juggling and re-adjusting positions and schedules but my family is here. My parents, my brother, his wife and my two nieces arrived late Thursday...
It's been a couple of fast paced weeks but I would not change a thing. Work is fairly busy as everyone is preparing to take some time off for the holidays. I am still getting acclimated to all the...
Hi everyone! Just a little heads up to say that the 4 day workshop I am doing with Clare is now open for registration! Click HERE to read all the details. We hope to see you there! To read what...
I am super excited to announce that I am teaming up once again with Clare to teach an awesome food and lifestyle photography workshop and retreat by the sea, in Gulf Shores, Alabama. We have...
After quite many people emailed asking about the restaurant we seemed to always take our workshop attendees to when in Charleston, I figured I'd do a little special post about it and its wonderful...
I hope and trust everyone to have enjoyed their Thanksgiving holidays and little time off here in the States. We sure have. Bill and the pups came to Birmingham for Thanksgiving and the older pup,...
In the 156 updates about the new house, here is the latest. A new dining room and chairs were delivered last Saturday turning the new pad into a real home. At least, that's how it feels to me. Seeing...
The workshops are over and I find myself immersed into work mode as I unpack my stuff here in Birmingham. I drove home today with ample time to reminisce and reflect along the stretches of forestry...
Currently. This is where I have been for the past week and where I am for the rest of this week. The beach. Not bad a location to teach a couple of food photography workshops... We have...
Early morning and not a creature in the house is stirring. The wind is making itself known, a really pretty dappled light is dancing against the wall. I am sitting at the kitchen table, looking at...
Little by little, I am settling in my new digs. Every evening after work has been taken by something to get, something to set up, nail, paint, something to be delivered, something to be returned....
Radio silence once again. If you know me, you also know that this is not my usual thing to be this quiet. Lots and lots happening again. Generally, I would never come up with reasons why I did let...
I really wanted to update the blog last week but if I had, it would have sounded vaguely familiar. In a way... It would have started just as it did several times over the summer: "I just got back...
Traveling so much these past few months has sort of turned into an amusing social study of myself and my fellow travelers. Nothing like getting stuck a airport to reflect, notice, smile or get a few...
Thank you all so much for the well wishes and congratulations. I am really excited about the beautiful work to be done ahead with wonderful food and prop stylists working by my side. Right now,...
I have been toying with how to break the news to you... Late at night, I would design some cute picture involving the husband and the pups, just the pups, just the husband but of course, I always ran...
It's been a week clearly balanced with working and nesting. I am heading out of town next week again to shoot Le Cordon Bleu cookbook (I know!!) and have been spending a good portion of my free time...
I finally sifted through all the pictures I took at the workshop Clare, Becky and I taught last weekend in Seattle and as usual, it was pretty hard deciding which ones to post and which ones to...
Back from Seattle after an amazing workshop and visit with dear friends. I love that the city is becoming like a second home away from home where I can visit and enjoy a great support system of...
Barely home from Washington, D.C that we are repacking and heading out tomorrow (insanely early) morning for Seattle. Yep. It's the Summer of packed crazy but absolutely delicious adventures. And...
Be ready for a massive picture post. Scotland, Northern Ireland, Ireland, workshop, people, food. It's all here... I thought about breaking it into several installments but I can't. I am afraid my...
We are back from our trip to Scotland and Ireland and slowly catching up on mail, emails and returning calls. Nothing out of the ordinary. We are also catching up on friends' news, family happenings...
All packed and ready to go! I think. First stop Scotland for a couple of short days. Then we will head over to Ireland and backroad our way to Belle Isle Cookery School for the 4-day workshop I am...
No recipes today. No profound thoughts about life and/or culinaria. Tonight's dinner consists of a big antipasti platter and a few glasses of Prosecco. I just wanted to take a moment and formerly...
I sort of took last week off from blogging, writing, commenting, etc... It does not mean I took the week off from cooking or shooting but I had to focus on prepping the coming months. We celebrated a...
Late last night, as I was waiting for a galette to come out of the oven to take to friends for dinner tonight - Happy 4th of July!! - I started thinking about our favorite summer recipes. To...
In memory of Barbara Harris. I considered her my "godmother in blogland". We met during my first "Blogging By Mail" back in 2006 when I sent her a care package to New Zealand. Always there with...
This is the time of year when my family would usually travel a few hours to settle in the Alps for the summer and enjoy cooler temperatures and lots of hiking in the gorgeous of Les Alpes De Haute...
The first days of the Summer here in the South always bring back memories of my youth spent in Provence and Les Grandes Vacances (Summer vacations) spent in the Alps. The scent of lavender, rosemary,...
Summer...We are definitely in the thick of it now! Baked goods have been slowly but surely replaced with ice creams, sorbets and plenty of fresh, ripe and juicy stone fruits. Yellow peaches, Saturn...
Starting this post with a little housekeeping note: one spot came available my workshop/retreat in Northern Ireland, July 19th - 23rd (details here) If you are interested, please email or call the...
Hello everyone! I am on A Cup Of Jo today, sharing my favorite breakfast and recipe for Scrambled Eggs Tartines! Thank you Joanna for having me again. It was a lot of fun to be participating in this...
