Well hello there my friends! This week I’ve started a new cookbook project and thought it’d be fun to share a bit of it. Called Good Bite’s Weeknight Meals: Delicious Made Easy, this cookbook will be published by Wiley & Sons in 2011. My friends at Good Bite and Wiley were cool with me posting [...]
by Matt on March 23, 2010
A few weeks ago I was on the phone with a potential client. We were discussing photography needs for their restaurant, a spot that features natural and vegan food. We talked about how many shots are feasible in one day, what their usage requirements would be, and how many people I’d need to assemble for [...]
by Matt on January 18, 2010
Our week at Club Med in Ixtapa, Mexico has come and gone. I had every good intention of being as diligent as my fellow bloggers who posted regularly, but a scientifically-proven physical reaction occurs whenever you combine these elements: Cerveza, sunshine, beach and great company. You cannot blog. You cannot stand up straight. Every tendon [...]
by Matt on September 9, 2009
I’m going to try not to use words like “Yipeeee!” and “wowwza!” to describe how excited I am about this. Some food bloggers, a few you may know, have teamed up with Club Med in Ixtapa, Mexico for the first ever Food Blog Camp. This event in January includes Diane Cu and Todd Porter, Michael [...]
by Matt on March 16, 2009
Some things to note about this video: 1) I have never edited a video in my entire life. Please go easy on me. 2) Flip Cam + Moving Boat = some choppy filming. 2) Jaden screaming “WORK IT! WORK IT!” is one of the highlights of my ENTIRE trip! 4) Wanna know what we did [...]
by Matt on March 13, 2009
New and Improved, 10% Softer and Sweeter Last month in PDN Magazine, Bon Appetit’s Design Director Matthew Lenning said “I hate pretty food pictures.” I think that explains the past year’s visual jolt. Harsh, in-your-face, strobed-to-the-nth-degree, it was a radical departure from the previous look and feel and although visually arresting it became a huge [...]