Sriracha is the old gochujang. Beer is always the new brew.
Sriracha is being turned out at 1 ton per hour. Enough for every skunk-sprayed dog in the world to bath twice weekly for 2.3 years. Do your part and eat your share. On a sandwich.
Photo by Renee Comet
Styling by Yours Truly
For Meat and Livestock Australia
There are loads of wonderful recipes on their site, including the recipe for this stellar
Hot Sriracha Grass-Fed Beef Sandwich.
Those are oven-roasted tomatoes in there. Ta-dah!
Posted in Lamb, Recipes, Sandwiches, Styling, Uncategorized
Tagged Grass-Fed Beef, Meat and Livestock Australia, MLA, Renee Comet, Renee Comet Photography, Sriracha
Banana fana fo fambie
Fee fy mo mambie
Lambie!
Lambstrami is the the name of the game and, pssst, somebody needs to be talking about this sssstuff. One hasssshtag mention on the Twittossssphere, one recipe in Googleversssity, one blogpossst at MLA, dat’sss about it.
What gives? This sandwich does. It gives good. Lambstami, people!
Photo by Renee Comet
Styling by Yours Truly
This lambstrami was made in Virginia, by an outfit that is outfitted for commercial production. Can I share their information with you? No, I cannot, because I do not have it. Frowny face.
I can tell you this: strami is a beautiful thing, created through brining and smoking, two brilliant meat transforming techniques. Good lamb/pastrami has the power to elevate one’s faith in humankind. Velvety, fatty, spiced, smoked and sliced. A slippery slope for the cheese melt. Sliver, slice, slab, slob. Lamb slam!
Posted in Shameless Self Promotion, Styling, Uncategorized
Tagged Lamb, Lambstrami, Meat and Livestock Australia, MLA, Renee Comet, Reuben
Shameless self promotion, shameless self indulgence, shameless self exposure of a shameless show of appetite. Pile it high, make it drip down my arm, bring on the onion, butter-griddled bread and sloppy creamed spinach. Oh yeah.
Pretzel roll dripping
With hanger steak and bourbon.
Spinach keeping safe sentry.
Photo by Renee Comet and styling by MOI! (I love it but think it coulda been drippier. Neatness bgone.)
Recipe – go on, click it! – here.
Posted in Foodstyling
Tagged Food Network, Jeff Mauro, Renee Comet, Renee Comet Photography
It’s always a blast to create photos for the Food Network with the well-oiled machine of Sara Levine Rosenblum, Renee Comet, Audrey Weppler, Carolyn Robb Schimley and Steve Redfearn. We work hard and produce a lot of pictures. And we have a lot of fun along the way.
For me it’s a treat to work with current recipes, to see what’s going on in the TV land of cooking, and to feel as though I am contributing in some way to getting people into the kitchen.
Jeff Mauro’s sandwich recipes raised all our eyebrows, as well as the numbers on our scales. Did that slow us down for a nano-second. Um, no. In fact, I wish I’d thought of the mac and cheese sandwich. Could I offer you a little pasta with your bread. Um, yes.
Mac and Cheese Grilled Cheese with Bacon Two Ways
All-American Down-Home Patriotic Meatloaf Sandwich
All photos by Renee Comet
We are in the business of exacerbating FOMO. My own is off the charts and I know these food images are fantasy. This is not humble bragging, people, this is a full on swagger. Intended to make you run with open wallet towards the delicious temptation.
Photo by Renee Comet
“Social software is both the creator and the cure of FOMO. It’s cyclical.” “We as humans can only process so much data.” Yeah, no kidding, brother. I can only look at these chips so long before I Must. Have. Some.
Just coming out of winter with its beautiful aloneness and headed optimistically into the re-intwinement of spring. Can I disconnect now? Turn my iPhone face down? Segue from the fevered recipe of cabined isolation’s www soundtrack to the long, long view of sky and trees, uninterrupted by a screen? The earth’s revolution will be live, people. On its axis of Eos.
Poster art by Jay TripperLast weekend in Boston the Transcultural Exchange hosted the 2013 Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts, themed Engaging Minds. The panel entitled Food as an Art Form included me. I was nervous as hell.
At a cocktail reception, Friday night, the night before I was slated to speak, I engaged with a man who was, oddly enough, neither an artist nor a person offering opportunities to artists. Wonder of wonders, he was a food dude. Swiss, sharp, sophisticated, part scientist, part entrepreneur, an embracer of ideas and thinker of big thoughts.
Me? Conflicted, struggling with my outlier status as a food stylist. I walk the line, often leaping into the advertising/PR mosh pit. Is it art? Nope. AN art? Yep. A little shop talk tracking the Venn diagram of the business of food and the art of food and the business of both sparked the man’s remark that what we do is “create desire.” Ding ding ding ding! Gongs bonged in my head.
Francesco Panese, Associate Professor of Social Studies of Science and Medicine in the Lausanne University and consultant to Nestlé, gave me that strap from which to hang and hang on tight I did, swinging from art to food to business to deception to art to food to consumption to art to food to…you get the train here. For those of us (ME! ME! ME!) who are fascinated by how food defines, connects, divides and consumes us, the panel was fascinating. Thank you, Mr. Panese. I will always remember my ultimate intent while at work, to create desire.
Photos by Renee Comet, Styling by Moi, for The Founding Farmers Cookbook
Posted in Foodstyling
Tagged Founding Farmers, Francesco Panese, Mary Sherman, Renee Comet, Transcultural Exchange, UNIL
A taste of summer, summer, summer, summer, tasting much sweeter than wine.
Country bread
I lie in bed
Basil Pesto
With the solstice manifesto.
Olive oil
Longer days uncoil
Fresh mozzarella
Promising shorter stellar,
Tomato slices
Spiked light enticers,
Lettuce leaves
And warm day sheaves.
Photo by Renee Comet, Styling by Yours Truly
Posted in Recipes, Sandwiches, Thanksgiving
Tagged Pesto, Renee Comet, Turkey Sandwich
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