My own gallery of regrettable food - eww!

School's done! Back to blogging...

I've decided that if you want to have a dedicated food blog, you need to learn a bit about photography. I've been following some vegan food blogs this year and--shudder--this food is just scary looking. There's only one blog run by someone who also does photography, and what a difference. Her photos are gorgeous, and she did the photos for the new Nava Atlas cookbook.

In fact, I think one could start a blog to rival Lilek's Gallery of Regrettable Food, just using contemporary photography from cooking blogs. Except who'd give you permission to use this pics?? But since this isn't a professional blog and no one will know... heh heh... I'm not picking on the actual food, and sometimes it's not even cooked by the blogger in question. It's just that... whatever goes into making food look appetizing in real life (the smells and 3-D ness and colours) is much harder to capture on film.

This greeted me today on someone's blog. Not a good advertisement for the raw diet. It looks like someone barfed after pigging out on spaghetti.

Is that the foetus of a baby chick lying on top??

I seriously couldn't figure out what this was. It looks like french fries doused in poutine sauce, but then tossed with tomatoes and rotten basil. Turns out those are noodles.

Some sort of horrible wrong has been committed on olives, here. Possibly perpetrated by the suspicious looking tofu.

This is a dead ringer for those cancerous lung photos they put on cigarette packages.

I don't know what this is, but it's clearly gone moldy.

I didn't realize Barf on Broccoli was a staple of the vegan diet. Different sauce, though. This is obviously cat puke.

Annnnd of course... someone sneezed on this just before the photo was taken.

I thought vegans didn't eat brain? Brain layered in blood?

Thought we didn't eat kidneys either.

Or monkey brain garnished with red pepper. Reminds me I wanted to see Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom again.