Christina

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A close-up image of black peppercorns, it highlights their natural beauty and textures, elements we often overlook in our daily cooking.

Homemade chocolate with pistachios

Samphire, a coastal vegetable that grows in rocky and marshy areas near saltwater. It's best enjoyed steamed or sauteed in butter and served with fish or even lamb.

Levitation image of a stack of buttermilk pancakes with blood oranges and blueberries.

Campari soda, garnished with fresh rosemary.

I placed the main light behind the drink to bring out the intense red colour of the Campari and used a reflector pointing to the rosemary. The smoke in the back is real.

Levitation image of spinach pancakes topped with nut butter, berries and honey.

Portrait of a winter truffle.

Sugar crusted cranberries.

While I was preparing some spice mixes for a few Indian dishes that I wanted to make, I had the idea of taking a few close-ups of the spices to show their beauty. This picture is one of them, certainly from the looks, one of my favourite spices: star anise.

Toasted sourdough bread with cream cheese, figs and honey.

Black lumpfish caviar, monochrome black.

In my house, we traditionally eat crayfish at the time of summer solstice. I love the intense colour of the crayfish, together with the dill, which I wanted to bring out without overpowering the image with too much colour or other noise.
I used natural light for this image.

Pista Kheer, an incredibly delicious Indian rice pudding with pistachios.

I made a few cocktails for world cocktail day, one of which is this classic Garibaldi cocktail, featuring the perfect blend of Campari and freshly squeezed orange juice.

Gin and tonic, one of my favourite drinks, simply flavoured with a few juniper berries and fresh rosemary.

Squid ink linguine with hot chilli pesto.
A black subject on a black background is always a bit tricky to capture, hence I used artificial light which gives better control. I also added a strong contrasting colour which not only works on the picture but also added a lot of flavour to the final dish.

Portrait of an organic broccoli. This one was so fresh and perfect that I had to take its picture using only one artificial light source.

Escargot with herb butter, captured my way.