Get Fresh

I really dig this photo! Marissa of Nourish Kitchen + Table wanted to create an edgy still life with some of the products she would be selling at her brand new shop. We got to work and came up with this, which I love.

It looks great as a postcard with her logo on it.

That same day we also shot this beautiful watermelon radish salad, which she made and style for her shop's "Get Fresh" postcard and for Q by Equinox's Summer Salad Series (excuse the less-than-perfect scan).

All images © 2013 Christine Han Photography

Summer Salads for Nourish K+T and Equinox

It's been HOT. I miss those lazy summer days when all I did was ride my bike to get an ice cream cone from Baskin Robbins with my saved up coins and dollar bills. Being a grown-up is overrated! Anyway, this heat calls for cold noodles and salads everyday (plus copious amounts of iced coffee to get through grown-up things like 'work').

Speaking of salads, Nourish Kitchen + Table collaborated with Q by Equinox to produce a Summer Salad Series, which I got to photograph! All these salads are delicious (I tasted them all, natch), and just perfect for the season.  Try them out and let me know which is your favorite.

Up on Equinox's blog today is Watermelon Salad with Basil, Ricotta Salata, and Red Onion. The salty-sweet combo is totally refreshing.

The last three weeks featured:

Steak Salad with Asparagus

Quinoa Salad with English Peas

Watermelon Radish and Beet Salad 

All images © 2013 Christine Han Photography. Recipes by Marissa Lippert for Nourish Kitchen + Table.

Chef Seamus Mullen on Pantry Confidential

I don't know why I hardly post here about my other blog baby Pantry Confidential (co-founded with my good friend Hana Choi of Stylefare), but I'm about to change that. Seamus Mullen's (of Tertulia and Iron Chef fame) home is a photographer's dream. You know I go crazy for details, and this shoot was just full of them! If I had a tail, you would have seen it wag the whole time.

Here is one of my favorite shots from the day: chef chilling in his barber chair, waiting for me to call him for his portrait.

Click here for the full post and the chance to win a signed copy of Seamus Mullen's book, Hero Food, over at Pantry Confidential!

The Best Lobster I've Ever Had

All images © 2012 Christine Han Photography


...was at Trenton Bridge Lobster Pound on Mount Desert Island in Maine.  It was a 2lb hard shell with the most succulent meat, perfectly briny but balanced by an underlying sweetness.  It was so good that for the first time, I was sucking out everything from every little part of every little leg and even the end of the tail part that you wouldn't think had any meat in it.

After trying both soft shell and hard shell lobsters, I'm in the hard shell camp.  They have more meat because they've grown fully into their shells.  Soft shells are supposed to be sweeter and more tender, but I didn't notice much of a difference and preferred the succulence and sheer meatiness of the hard shells.

Trenton Bridge was simply the best lobster pound we went to.  It's family-owned and operated and did not feel touristy.  They boil the lobsters in seawater over a wood fire in a row of pots outside.  If that weren't enough reason to go, they also happen to have amazing blueberry pie.