The Dairy Issue of Edible Manhattan is available now, for which I had the pleasure of shooting a feature on New York City’s own dairy queen, Anne Saxelby. I spent an afternoon with Anne at her Saxelby Cheesemongers stand in the Essex Street Market, and another at her cheese cave in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Have …
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SUDS IN THE CITY
Edible Manhattan‘s Alcohol Issue is bar hopping around the city now, in which you’ll find a write-up about the Chelsea Brewing Company accompanied by a few of my photographs of their products and a casual portrait of head brewmaster Mark Szmaida. You can find the latest issue of Edible Manhattan at your favorite bookseller, magazine stand, …
FEAST OF THE SEVEN FISHES
Edible Brooklyn‘s winter issue just hit newsstands, and it includes a holiday traditions write-up about the Feast of the Seven Fishes that features a few of my photographs. The Feast of the Seven Fishes is an Italian tradition in which seven different seafood dishes are consumed on Christmas Eve, meant to celebrate the wait for …
FRENCH PHOTOGRAPHY
A few weeks back, the Flatiron District’s popular Parisian bistro, Almond, had me in to do an impromtu portrait session for their Bastille Day Dinner Party. For those not in the know, Bastille Day celebrates the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille fortress-prison in 1789, which was seen as a symbol of the uprising of the modern …
ANOTHER EDIBLE
The Summer Issue of Edible Hudson Valley is currently available online and in store, and features a feature on master farmer and Hudson Valley icon, Rick Bishop of Mountain Sweet Berry Farm in Roscoe, NY. The story, written by Nancy Matsumoto, includes a refresh on the photos that I took of Rick and his produce …
VEGAN LATINA: TERRY HOPE ROMERO
In the spring of this year, I had the chance to photograph Terry Hope Romero for the Greenpoint-based vegan food blog, Kitchen La Bohème. Terry is the author of a number of popular vegan cookbooks including Viva Vegan! and Veganomicon, and writes the colorful Vegan Latina! blog. Follow this link to read Kitchen La Bohème’s …
IN THE KITCHEN @ ALMOND
A few weekends back I had the chance to spend a Saturday afternoon shooting at Almond, a farm-to-table French bistro in Manhattan’s Flat Iron district. First up on the menu was a casual portrait shoot with chef Jason Weiner, whom I had met about a month prior at an Edible Manhattan event at the Tenement …
ALMOST THE NEXT IRON CHEF
As part of my recent work for Edible Manhattan and their feature on farmer Rick Bishop, I had the opportunity to photograph chef Marco Canora at his Tuscan ristorante in Manhattan’s East Village, Hearth. I was a big fan of Marco from his run on Food Network’s The Next Iron Chef, where he placed second, …
WORKING WITH WYLIE
As part of Edible Manhattan‘s recent feature on one of the Union Square Greenmarket‘s founding farmers, Rick Bishop, I had the great pleasure of photographing chef Wylie Dufresne at his contemporary-yet-comfortable Lower East Side eatery, WD-50. Contestant on Iron Chef America and Top Chef Masters, recurring guest judge on numerous seasons of Top Chef, and …
FARMVILLE
Edible Manhattan‘s Eat Drink Local Issue is now available on newsstands, at bookstores, and at a Whole Foods near you, and it features a story that I’ve been photographing for the better part of a year. Farmer Rick Bishop has been a staple at the Union Square Greenmarket for longer than he’d probably want you …
CARLA RZESZEWSKI (AND HER PORTRAIT) ON EATER NY
Gotta love those Google Alerts… I received an email last night that a portrait I shot of Carla Rzeszewski, wine director at The Breslin Bar & Dining Room in Manhattan, is currently gracing the front page of Eater NY. As part of Eater’s Burger Week celebration (pretty much my favorite week of the year), those …
THE 100TH POST
Today we mark a milestone here at SGB Pho(blog)raphy- this is our 100th post! And that which is cause for celebration also proves to be cause for reflection… 99 posts in 22 months. Some thoughtful, some witty, some irreverent, and all a means to this end- to prevent our idle hands from becoming the devil’s …
THREE CHEFS AND A FARMER
I had the unique opportunity to spend some time with three world class chefs, and the world class farmer they go to for their greens, at the Union Square Greenmarket on a sunny Saturday morning earlier this month. Wylie Dufresne- chef and owner of WD-50 on the Lower East Side, contestant on Iron Chef America …
FREE LUNCH AT THE TENEMENT MUSEUM
Edible Manhattan hosted a unique gastro-historical event at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum last Tuesday evening, and I was there to document the festivities (and to sample some great food!). Red Wattle ham and pickled red cabbage from Almond, housemade sausage and sour kraut from Cafe Katja, soft pretzels from Prime Meats, Berleburg cheese …
CODY UTZMAN FOR KITCHEN LA BOHEME
Chef Cody Utzman- owner of four Brooklyn-based eateries (Brooklyn Label, Brooklyn Standard, Papacitos, and Cafe Royal), and winner of Chopped and Chopped Champions on the Food Network, is featured this week in the Inspired By column over at Kitchen La Bohéme. I had the good fortune of meeting and photographing Cody for the article a …
WINE ON TAP AT THE BRESLIN
The January/February issue of Edible Manhattan contains a quick write-up about the keg wine being tapped at the Ace Hotel‘s companion bar and eatery, The Breslin. The proof is in the photograph of mine which accompanies the article. Head on over to The Breslin at 29th and Broadway to see, and have a sip, for …
AN APPETIZER FROM EDIBLE MANHATTAN
I’ve had the good fortune over the past two months to begin shooting for local food ‘zines Edible Manhattan & Edible Brooklyn. The Edible community spans the country and crosses our northern border in the name of sustainability and in support of cooking with and consuming locally-sourced goods, while celebrating the gastro-pioneers of the culinary …
PERISHABLES: A CULINARY CULTURE COLLECTION
I’ve spent the last few days putting a new photography portfolio together, the gastronomically-themed Perishables. The goal was to incorporate plated food shots, establishment interiors and atmospheres, chef and restauranteur portraits, and a hint of travel/destination photography under the overarching banner of a food lifestyle collection. Culinary culture, I like to call it. You can preview …
PICTURES OF A SNAIL
I recently hopped a train to Red Bank, NJ to photograph chef Adam Sobel- creator, owner, and…..driver of The Cinnamon Snail. The Cinnamon Snail is the country’s first 100% vegan food truck, currently servicing Hoboken, NJ and soon to be making the rounds in Brooklyn. An in-depth interview with Adam (and a few of the …
WILL WORK FOR FOOD
Kitchen La Bohème. The Bohemian Kitchen. It’s a vegan pure vegetarian food blog that I’ve been shooting for lately. A vegan food blog, you say? Yep. Well, Scott, are you vegan? Nope. Are you, at least, vegetarian then? Not even close. So, a carnivore taking pictures for a vegan food blog? That’s right. But why? …
LUNCH QUEST! TOM & JOE’S, ALTOONA, PA
Tom & Joe’s has the best Breakfast Mess. Ever. There, I said it. Now if you happen to be the skeptical type that has to see eat to believe, then you can hop on The Pennsylvanian (with an empty stomach) from the Amtrak concourse at Penn Station, get off fourteen stops later in Altoona, walk three …
LUNCH QUEST! NEW ENGLAND EDITION: WOOD’S SEAFOOD
Just a stone’s throw from the Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts is Wood’s Seafood, an end-of-the-pier seafood shack and fish market that you’d expect from any harbor town, but especially from this harbor town, because this harbor town is America’s Hometown. After passing on a refreshing dip in the Governor Bradford Inn‘s fish-shaped pool, then feeling …
LUNCH QUEST! GRAVESEND GASTRONOMY: BRENNAN & CARR
A recent commercial interiors shoot for Superpages led me to the ghoulishly-named neighborhood of Gravesend in Brooklyn. Much to my masochistic dismay, Gravesend is home to more Chinese restaurants and Kosher markets than haunted houses and fog-shrouded cemeteries. A ten-minute walk east from the Q train on Avenue U will lead you to a well …
THE SUSHI LOOP: TOKYO WEEK! SATURDAY BONUS
As seen on the ceiling, Thursday evening, at Supercore.
PITTSBURGH: CITY OF CHAMPIONS, CITY OF SANDWICHES
I was in Pittsburgh last week I was in the City of Champions last week, working on a shoot with good friend and outstanding photographer Matthew Furman. It was a quick flight out of LaGuardia, only spending about 45 minutes in the air. We would only have twenty-four hours in the Steel City, and most …
