People always ask me who or what I'm shooting for when I'm with my camera in their kitchen. I simply tell them, it's for me. Annnnnndddd then I go onto explain how I'm more interested in the behind-the-scenes stuff/the process of cooking a dish/the things rarely people see or care to think about. I also love to just hang out in the kitchen. The orderly chaos during service time. Recently I got the chance to visit Toro NYC in Chelsea and spent couple hours in the kitchen before service on a Sunday night. Thanks to Chef Jamie Bissonnette and his crew for letting me snap some photos.
Also, you should check out the foie gras farm trip I took with Chef Bissonnette and Chef Ken Oringer.
Last week I trekked out to Bushwick to have brunch with few friends. We went to Mama Joy's, close to the Jefferson stop on the L. Brunch. The concept of brunch is pretty new to me. Well new like 6 years new. When I used to live in LA, we go to dim sum on the weekends and that technically is brunch. But dim sum, for some reason, didn't equal to me having brunch. Even when I moved to New York in 2003 for grad school. I mostly spent my weekends at school, doing work. Brunch was a sandwich at the local deli.
