Food – Page 11 – Dan Routh Photography

Still Life Product Photography

For those of you who have followed this blog, you have probably noticed that I spend a lot of time hanging around the Goat Lady Dairy in Grays Chapel. There are a couple of reasons. I live about a half mile from their operation, so they are neighbors and friends. I also really like the product they make. Recently, I have been working on shooting photography around the dairy for a website redesign they are working on. The image above shows one of the many types of goat cheese they produce weekly. The dairy is located about 18 miles south of Greensboro.

Easter Eggs

Animals, Family, Food

The Easter Bunny didn’t visit us yesterday, but the Easter Guinea did. My son Tristan was watching our guinea fowl when one of the hens ducked into a fence row. Tristan found this clutch of fresh eggs hidden in the hedge. The size of a bantum chicken egg, but with a thicker shell, they are very rich and are wonderful to cook with or eat plain.

Food Photography … Sushi

Food, Greensboro

I don’t get the chance to shoot as much food photography as I used to, but occasionally the odd job comes along, and I still enjoy it. I’ve worked with several food stylists over the years that were really good at making food look appetizing, but after you shot something, you didn’t want to eat it. The sushi in this shot was prepared by a sushi chef at the restaurant I was covering. He made it normally and I just plated and shot it. And, shortly after the image was captured, I had the pleasure of making it my lunch. I think I prefer it this way.

By the way. If you’re in Greensboro and you like sushi as I do, check out Sushi Republic on Tate Street across from UNC Greensboro.

Smith Street Diner

Food, Greensboro

Dropped by the Smith Street Diner in Greensboro this morning to do some shots for the local restaurant dining guide. Smith Street is a sort of retro local diner but very genuine and filled with genuine people and food. Run by Robert Johnston, Smith Street serves up breakfast and lunch daily to the local folks of downtown Greensboro. You can get a sub or a burger or a meat and vegetable special for lunch and you can get always get a fresh country breakfast. And where else can you get that breakfast with a side order of foie gras or smoked salmon. The coffee’s good too. Just ask the regulars.

Persimmons

Food

This is the time of the year when God gives us a gift in North Carolina, and this year it was bountiful. That gift is a wild fruit known as the persimmon (Diospyros virginiana). You pick them up when they ripen and fall off the tree (never before), and they taste like, well, a persimmon. There is no other taste like a persimmon on earth that I know of. And, after you separate the pulp from the skin and seeds, you make a persimmon pudding, a North Carolina delicacy like no other. And the best recipe I ever tasted was from my step-grandmother Lucy. Yes, Lucy’s persimmon pudding. Will make a man’s knees go weak.

Above is Lucy’s recipe in her own handwriting. She died in 2003 at age 103.

The Yancey House

Food

I recently had the pleasure to shoot and eat at the Yancey House Restaurant in Yanceyville, North Carolina. Owners Michael and Lucindy Willis operate a wonderful establishment in a beautiful Victorian house that was the home of Bartlett Yancey, US Congressman and UNC Trustee, and the namesake for Yanceyville. The hospitality is exceptional and the food is to die for. Loved the sea bass and the crab cakes. For more info, go to http://www.yanceyvillage.com.

Lucindy is a retired English professor and does all the cooking.