After shooting chocolate on Portland's hottest day of the year, I just wanted to write a couple of words about food photography. The best food photographers work collaboratively with a food stylist. These people are professionals, sometimes with a fine art background, sometimes with a catering or chef 's background but always with lots and lots of experience preparing food for the camera. Very important is to paraphrase Alexey Brodovitch, famous art director for Vogue, "..all that's required is good taste." That and a really good hand for something like Jango...the still camera is an all discerning eye which requires a perfection real time food or even moving food images don't. The best of these professionals are a joy to work with because they bring so much taste and very often humor to a shoot. They are usually unflappable and very detail oriented, every bit as dedicated to getting the job done as the photographer is. I am lucky to work with a couple of these people in Lucy Radys and Carol Ladd and I think these folks are really the unsung heros of the food world who make my job possible. Thanks you all. And how about now a picture of something cool and light for summer supper with local Oregon hazelnuts and Tillamook cheese