Roll With It, Food Photography

Photography of the outside world. We Eat Together: Food Photography Composition Guide. Serious food styling rather than photo snaps at a restaurant. Has food-related tips rather than generic photo advice.

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Photo of a sushi roll with sauce on a white tray

American sushi restaurants offer enormous, gaudy rolls stuffed and coated with a kitchen sink worth of ingredients. They bear the same relationship to Japanese cuisine that Tex-Mex does to Mexican.

I am not a fan.

I consider them a blot on the menu.

Recently, we took in a local art show. That’s us, getting all arty these days. [Landscape]

Anyway.

We stopped for lunch at a sushi restaurant, name withheld due to the level of snark herein. Although classic sushi choices were limited, the menu had an entire page of these behemoths. I decided I would try one. With no way to chose, I ordered the roll named after town we were in. The description promised deep-fried, smoked salmon, crab salad, cream cheese, topped with mango sauce, sweet soy-reduction, green onion.

Did I like it? No. As sushi, it did not change my opinion that dairy and cream sauces have no place on a sushi roll.

Did I like it? Yes. As food, I could see how the accretion disk approach might work.

Will I order this or one of its cousins? Never. The purist in me remains offended.

Photo of a salmon sushi order on a wooden tray

My safety order.

Process Notes

Taking pictures of my food made me feel as if I were cosplaying an influencer.

Onwards!
Katherine

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