50 Best Food Blog Photos Of 2012
A drool advisory has been issued for this post. It contains our favorite food styling and photography from the past year. View at your own risk.
Lesson one: Beautiful food photos start with gorgeous ingredients.
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stone fruits / ANDREA GENTL
2.
ingredients for spring rice salad / TARA O'BRADY
3.
flour / KATIE QUINN DAVIES
4.
white currants / NICOLE FRANZEN
5.
ingredients for lamb's quarters frittata / LINDA XIAO
6.
cherry tomatoes / NICKY WALSH
7.
pine nuts and parmesan / SHAUN BOYTE
8.
ingredients for brown butter espresso chip muffins / HUGH FORTE
Check out the Sprouted Kitchen cookbook here, it's one of our favorites this year.
9.
plums / STEPHANIE SHIH
10.
ingredients for murgh chicken korma / KANKANA SAXENA
11.
purple cauliflower / KIMBERLEY HASSELBRINK
12.
leeks / TARA O'BRADY
13.
persimmons / KANKANA SAXENA
14.
spruce tip honey / ANDREA GENTL
Lesson two: Process shots can steal the show from finished shots.
15.
homemade spaghetti with lemon, garlic, chili & mint / KATIE QUINN DAVIES
16.
raspberry sorbet & ginger beer floats / STEPHANIE SHIH
17.
fillo pie with pistachios and honey / PETRINA TINSLAY
18.
cherry pie / ASHLEY RODRIGUEZ
19.
butternut squash and caramelized onion galette / TARA O'BRADY
20.
ARAN GOYOAGA / outtake from her new cookbook, Small Plates And Sweet Treats.
21.
breakfast tacos with avocado radish salsa / KIMBERLEY HASSELBRINK
22.
fresh tofu spring rolls / RACHEL BALL
23.
zucchini and tomato pasta / TAMI HARDEMAN
24.
moonshine marshmallows / LINDA XIAO
Lesson three: Food is often the MOST beautiful right before you eat it, whether it's savory...
25.
bibimbap with tofu & pickled vegetables / GREEN KITCHEN STORIES
26.
no recipe pizza / NICKY WALSH
27.
octopus salad / SARAH BOLLA
28.
fava bean and green pea tartine / BÉATRICE PELTRE
Check out her cookbook here.
29.
roasted radicchio, speck & balsamic salad / KAREN LOW
30.
Kentucky hot brown on a biscuit / TARA O'BRADY
31.
spring pea & radish salad / TAMI HARDEMAN
32.
breakfast tostadas / ARAN GOYOAGA
33.
oxtail banh mi / SYLVIA FOUNTAINE
34.
pea shoot, pomegranate & chevre salad / LINDSEY JOHNSON
Or sweet...
35.
roasted concord grapes & greek yogurt / ANDREA GENTL
36.
black forest berry gateau / KATIE QUINN DAVIES
37.
orange pancakes / NICKY WALSH
38.
churros & chocolate / MOWIE KAY
39.
from a food photo styles tutorial that's super helpful and interesting / STEPHANIE SHIH
40.
blueberry oat biscuit cobbler / HUGH FORTE
41.
lebni tart with persimmon & pomegranate / YOSSY AREFI
42.
hazelnut cake with saffron frozen yogurt and figs / GREEN KITCHEN STORIES
43.
macarons / CRISTINA LORENZO
44.
homemade ice cream cones / MICHAEL GRAYDON
45.
peach dutch baby with blueberry sauce / JENNIFER M
46.
pumpkin whoopie pies / RUSSELL VAN KRAAYENBURG
47.
salted caramel chocolate truffles / KAREN LOW
48.
chocolate birthday cake / MOWIE KAY
49.
stone fruit tarts with coconut pastry cream / MICHAEL PAYNIC
Or somewhere in between.
50.
peanut butter, banana & chickpea bacon sandwich / CELINE STEEN
Check out the blogs featured in this post for more great photos and recipes.
Apt. 2B Baking Co. - Yossy Arefi
Cafe Johnsonia - Lindsey Johnson
Canelle et Vanille - Aran Goyoaga
Chasing Delicious - Russell Van Kraayenburg
Citrus & Candy - Karen Low
Desserts For Breakfast - Stephanie Shih
Elephantine - Rachel Ball
Feasting At Home - Sylvia Fountaine
Green Kitchen Stories - David, Luise & Elsa
Have Cake Will Travel - Celine Steen
Happyolks - Kelsey Brown & Shaun Boyte
Forty-Sixth At Grace - Nikole Herriott
Hungry Ghost - Andrea Gentl
Inspiring The Everyday - Michael Matthew
Kanela y Limon - Cristina Lorenzo (in Spanish)
La Buena Vida - Nicole Franzen
La Tartine Gourmande - Béatrice Peltre
Lemon Fire Brigade - Sarah Bolla
Mowielicious - Mowie Kay
Nicky & Max - Max Faber & Nicky Walsh
Not Without Salt - Ashley Rodriguez
Running With Tweezers - Tami Hardeman
Seasons & Suppers - Jennifer M
Seven Spoons - Tara O'Brady
Sprouted Kitchen - Hugh & Sara Forte
Sunshine & Smile - Kankana Saxena
The Food Dept. - Sally Courtney, Anne Marie Cummins, David Morgan & Petrina Tinslay
The Tart Tart - Linda Xiao
The Year In Food - Kimberley Hasselbrink
What Katie Ate - Kate Quinn Davies
This post is by definition incomplete, since the world of food blogs is vast and full of gorgeous photography. So if we missed an amazing blog (maybe yours?) let us know about it!