The Artful Pie: Unforgettable Recipes for Creative Cooks

Lisa Cherkasky and Renée Comet

Creating your own book, with your own name on the cover, is a thrilling experience. There is nothing as gratifying as pure autonomy and free use of imagination. Renee and I thought it up and made the pictures. I did the writing, including the story of my grandmother and her 14,000 pies. Rux Martin was our editor, and Chapters published “The Artful Pie”.

United Cakes of America: Recipes Celebrating Every State

Warren Brown

Warren Brown is a class act. Working on “United Cakes of America” and on the forthcoming “CakeLove in the Morning”, I needed to be as versatile as fresh eggs, as smooth as warm butter, and as fundamentally useful as all-purpose flour. Warren brings all that out in others, and more. The books showcase the ease and pleasure that defines CakeLove.

Winner of the 2010 International Gourmand
Award for Best Cover in the USA.

Delicious by Design:
30 Years/30 Recipes

Robert Sugar

To celebrate AURAS Design’s 30th anniversary, President and Creative director Rob Sugar combined his two great loves, cooking and design, to create one spectacular book. This volume is full of a lifetime of delicious recipes. Because the photographer, Renée Comet, and I were given carte blanche, styling for Delicious by Design was especially exhilarating.

The Diabetes Comfort
Food Cookbook

Robyn Webb

Winner of the 2011 International Gourmand Award for Best Nutrition and Health Cookbook in the USA.

Masterpieces: A Celebration
of Food and Art in Virginia

Virginia Museum Of Fine Arts

In commemoration of its fiftieth anniversary, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Council created a beautiful cookbook. Happily for me, they brought the photography to Washington, DC where Renée Comet and I worked together on the images.

Dining at Monticello

Damon Lee Fowler

Another in a joyful series of collaborations with Renée Comet. Vegetables were carried from the gardens of Monticello to Renée’s studio in Washington, DC, where I was the lucky recipient, turning them into updated versions of Jefferson’s beloved recipes. Carry this away as a keepsake and carry into your kitchen for real cooking.

Australian Lamb: A World of Flavor

Meat & Livestock Australia, Ltd.

Meat & Livestock Australia has published a number of incredibly beautiful books. The design, recipes and execution are impeccable, and after these shoots I am exhausted. And happy. Working with recipes from Australia always opens my eyes, and tastebuds, to the wonders of the world’s pantry and bounty.

The Mitsitam Cafe Cookbook: Recipes from the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian

Richard Hetzler

What an honor to be chosen to do the styling for Mitsitam, which brings to your home the recipes from this destination restaurant on our National Mall.

Winner of the 2010 International Gourmand Award  for Best World Cuisine in the USA.

Classic Desserts Redefined

This project for The Ritz-Carlton was built to be a gift to guests and was spearheaded by Marriner Marketing Communications. Designed by Claudia Barac-Roth,  ”Classic Desserts Redefined” features amazing photographs by Renée Comet and equally amazing recipes from Ritz-Carlton pastry chefs.

Dining with the Washingtons: Historic Recipes, Entertaining, and Hospitality from Mount Vernon

Stephen McLeod (editor)

To produce the images for “Dining with the Washingtons”, we worked at sunrise and sunset, in the garden, on the lawn and indoors, too. Mt Vernon is breathtakingly beautiful, with a view across the Potomac River that remains as it was while George Washington called this stately farm home.

Collaborating with Renée Comet, the photographer, was, as always, a joy. We got a lift out of handling (and filling with food and drink) spectacular period glassware, flatware and china. And making food look delicious, together.

Controle Su Diabetes Una Receta a la Vez

American Diabetes Association and Canola

Photography by Renee Comet

Over the years I have had many opportunities to work on government sponsored projects that are designed to improve quality of life through healthy cooking and eating. Controle Su Diabetes Una Receta a la Vez (Control Your Diabetes One Recipe at a Time) was just such an assignment. The book is useful, approachable, well-written, well-intended and attractive. I was pleased to be a part of it.

Cakelove in the Morning

Photography by Joshua Cogan

Baking in collaboration with Warren Brown is always a smooth endeavor. The man is mellow in the kitchen and his baking reflects that easy air.

The Stress Free Diabetes Cookbook

Photography by Renee Comet

What a tricky topic on so many levels. Both the recipes and the images will bring calm to your kitchen and help you put tasty food on your table over and over again.