Richard’s Notes

My wife makes bread but not like this. Darn.
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Jeff Kauck is a professional photographer specalizing in food and still life. You can see his training as a watercolorist in his work; he knows how to use light and color in the most nuanced and beautiful ways.
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Waterbury, Connecticut. Warming up with some hot sauce for the challenge of shooting my granddaughter Erin’s 7th birthday party.

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Warren, Connecticut. It’s beer time and well, the light was good so it’s camera time too. This glass is dreaming of beer.

Red Hook ESB on the menu today.

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New York City. Six of us had a great Ethiopian dinner in Greenwich Village last night. The restaurant is below ground level so shooting this clear water glass enabled me to angle up and catch the light on the street.

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I came across The Wednesday Chef while looking at her review of a no knead bread recipe. As an old clay wedger it’s not like I don’t like kneading, I do, but I thought this “kneadless” bread recipe might be worth an experiment or two. I have yet to try it.
Here’s the original recipe in [...]

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Warren, Connecticut. This is approximately one apple pie’s worth of apples, pears, quince. Click on the image to go up to flickr where there are notes on each apple showing which is which.

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Warren, Connecticut. This is a popular apple, a spy-gold which is a modern hybrid (bred combination) of northern spy (tart) and golden delicious (sweet). The stem is where the apple hangs from the tree and through which it receives all of its nutrients as it grows and ripens.

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Warren, Connecticut. Went up to Averill Farm to buy apples, pears, and quinces for our apple pie baking marathon this weekend. Figured I’d get them now so I could photograph them before they get "pied." Got them all washed and lined up regiment style for their group picture.
These bosc pears are maybe the most photographed [...]

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Warren, Connecticut. Finally, on Halloween, I picked the pumpkins in our "patch" and lined them up. We have 30 pumpkins and 15 turban squashes. None of the pumpkins are "state fair champions" but they’ll be nice pumpkin pies and squash for our one experiment with Afghan cooking: a chili like dish over pumpkin and before [...]

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Warren, Connecticut. We’ve been buying bread from a bakery in the next town for years, and it’s great stuff. However, it’s expensive as they use all organic and high-end ingredients. They recently raised their already high prices, and that was the tipping point for me. I got my wife to teach me how to bake [...]

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huck has a great gallery: Breakfast photo project.
Fantastic. Great idea, well pulled off.
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The New York times has a fantastic story about an artist who uses fish like rubber stamps to make beautiful prints: First a Hook, Then Ink: An Artist’s Catch.
But before inspiration can strike, the fish must. And that’s where Ms. Sessler’s husband, a longtime fisherman named Jim Goldberg, comes in. It’s an elegant hunter-gatherer arrangement: [...]

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What the World Eats is a photo essay from Time, Inc. Notice the Americans with their pizzas. Notice how many cultures drink soft drinks. Notice, notice, notice… fascinating.
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Pasadena, California. The Huntington Herb Garden, like the Desert Cactus Garden, has a rich variety of exotic herbs from all over the world. Some of them are familiar: dill, rosemary, thyme, but others, like this one I had no clue about. This pod looked a bit too dangerous to pick and eat, like it might [...]

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In Pursuit of Tea will give you everything you ever wanted to know about tea: growing, harvesting, buying, brewing and drinking, with a sprinkling of philosophy and politics tossed in the pot. Dang, tea is deep. I guess I knew that but now I really know it.
Source: Sandrine Harris

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Warren, Connecticut. Holidays are a nice time to get together with family, whether you celebrate them or not. I’m a Passover sort of guy myself (well, truth be told I don’t like Passover either because of historic fright of having to read in front of a group) but it doesn’t matter the holiday, the fam [...]

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Warren, Connecticut. Anne and I will undoubtedly be asleep when the clock strikes midnight here tonight. We’re new year’s eve duds for sure. We had a wonderful dinner with friends here in Warren last night and that, for us, will be it.
However, I’d like to toast all of you and wish you a happy new [...]

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Warren, Connecticut. My wife Anne has been making this holiday bread for over thirty years. The tradition is to have it with a sugary icing and lots of butter on Christmas morning. I have to say, even though Christmas isn’t my holiday, I look forward to this bread which is not quite as eggy as [...]

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My flickr contact Sarah posted a photo and simple explanation on skinning tomatoes: “Stab the skins and then pour boiling water over them, empty it and fill the bowl with cold water. The skins then fall off the tomatoes with no effort at all, hurrah!”
“Second tip - don’t do too many at a time, as [...]

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