Posts by Mason Adams
Everyone has their own secret ingredient. Katrina Markoff is the founder of Vosges Haut-Chocolat, so you can imagine what goes into all her recipes. They say to not bring your work home, but in this case she can be excused for sprinkling chocolate onto every dish and drink. Honestly, you can never have too much.
If you asked Sarah Cave about her own secret ingredient, she might not tell you. But it’s easy enough to discern: style. You can see it in everything that she does, including this story on Katrina’s recipes for the September issue of Better Homes and Gardens.
Posted August 29, 2011 by Mason Adams |
Filed Under: Aquarius
Out now, Jörg Meyer‘s images for the Morgan and Milo fall campaign are full of energy and color. Kids fashion is always tough to shoot because you just can’t stop for an instant lest you lose a moment, but these turned out so well. But the one I don’t understand is sneakers with no laces. If you’re going to make a slip-on, why put eyelets on the shoe? Is that some kind of cool thing with the whippersnappers now? Does it really have no practical value? Could somebody please get those kids off my lawn?
Posted August 26, 2011 by Mason Adams |
Filed Under: Aries, Taurus
I wonder if places like Whole Foods track the most popular salad ingredients that people choose, and keep an eye on how the salad bar fares as a profit center. There are a lot of ways that you can save money there – in this story from Food Network shot by and styled by Andrew and Carrie Purcell, you can see how different ingredients are more or less expensive compared to the produce on the shelf. Of course, you could always take it to the extreme, but I’m not sure how a salad composed entirely of bacon bits and sun-dried tomatoes would taste. For more ideas there is an extra chart from the NYT.
Posted August 12, 2011 by Mason Adams |
Filed Under: Aries, Virgo
In this month’s issue of Health, Carrie Purcell and Sarah Cave team up with the inedible Quentin Bacon to bring readers the best pizza ever. What qualifies a pizza as ‘the best?’ How can you even begin to approach something so subjective? I mean, there are situations where even mediocre pizza is elevated to ‘life-saving,’ like this one time when I was in college… but I digress. Certainly an argument could be made that this is the best looking pizza ever. That little swoop of arugula, the shapes of red onion and texture of cheese… I bet if you ate the page it would still taste pretty good.
Posted August 11, 2011 by Mason Adams |
Filed Under: Aquarius, Aries
Hilary Robertson styles the cover story in the September issue of Country Living, shot by the harmonious Miki Duisterhof. The buzzword is ‘makeover’ but unfortunately a copy of the magazine only comes with pretty pictures and not Hilary in person. Without her, what takes an ‘hour’ might as well take all month. She just has that kind of touch. The only person who seems unimpressed is Fido – he must have been expecting a food stylist. Sorry bud, we spent it all on the flowers.
Posted August 9, 2011 by Mason Adams |
Filed Under: Aquarius
Björn Wallander knows that bigger isn’t always better; in other words, it isn’t the size of your camera, it is the quality of your light. Or so he always tells me. Not that a big system would have been able to fit in this apartment – at the shoot I had to stand in the hallway. Part of the reason why House Beautiful was drawn to designer Nick Olsen is that he really was able to transform the space in such a remarkable way (here is a video tour). The same can be said of Björn’s photos – the ceilings might as well be 20 feet tall to get that kind of light.
Posted August 3, 2011 by Mason Adams |
Filed Under: Cancer
Melissa Punch shot the recent cover story for ShopSmart on ’10 Food Shockers.’ Most of the things on the list are just part and parcel of industrial food production, something that must be accepted if you are going to continue buying cheap food at the supermarket. Not that it is a good thing, just a reality of the system that provides every kind of out-of-season food to all corners of the country. I think the biggest shocker of all is that you do have a choice in the matter; the easiest way to make that choice is to stay informed. Just try not to get distracted by the pretty pictures.
Posted June 27, 2011 by Mason Adams |
Filed Under: Leo
Fresh out of the oven, Sweet Paul’s Summer issue has all the hot eats and cool treats. Except this isn’t Dairy Queen. This is homemade ice cream sandwiches. Hand-rolled donuts. Giant milkshakes. Everything you could possibly want to throw that overhyped bikini diet under the bus. According to photographer Hector Sanchez, they tasted as good as they look (which is pretty damn good).
Posted June 20, 2011 by Mason Adams |
Filed Under: Capricorn
