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by dayna mcisaac

Dayna McIsaac, Food Stylist, Recipe Developer, Food Writer

When I began blogging about food, I thought I was going to recall memories, be opinionated where food should come from and, hopefully, write a few decent recipes down along the way.
I was not at all planning on enjoying the outcome of my photos rather than my dishes. Don't get me wrong, everything I shot, I made and usually ate or fed to company shortly there after. Recipes still had to work well and be tasty but I found myself stirring in the key ingredients imagining how I might style the finished plate of food.

Food is meant to look good. It's natural for it to be appealing for us in order to know when things are most ripe and at their tastiest, so why not photograph it from a great angle with a matching napkin?

I am available for styling, recipe writing, testing & developing, food related articles and photography.

Here's my portfolio.

December 9, 2008

Blogging By Mail

Perhaps you have not read the archives, or my other blog.

Well, ever since first noticing it, I’ve been obsessed (to say it lightly) with the event that takes place amongst some bloggers. Put together by Stephanie at Dispensing Happiness. “Blogging By Mail” matches bloggers from around the globe to send a little something, in this case our most favourite things.

Away on vacation, I couldn’t help but badger our house sitter with my postal inquiries. When suddenly, it was announced. A box from… Wisconsin! I wasn’t sure if it would be it, but I was told it was a brown paper package and we all know what those contain…

Favourite things!!!

Inside there was amazing, gingered dark chocolate, genmai-cha tea, (YUM & gone), spiced cider, gummy bears, beautiful glass coasters, mini-sock monkeys, googly eyes, for all purpose use, a groovy pen and the coolest/weirdest Asian candies that made me very popular!

As I drank my most amazing, favourite tea and savoured my chocolate, I found the little note, so nicely written by Laima on fantasticly, fushia, Nepali rice paper. Using my *new* silver pen, she wrote out, all of her favourites and how they found themselves into the thoughtful box which was found on my doorstep and so carefully placed to wait for my return on my kitchen counter.

I realized then, one of my own favourite things and it’s getting packages in the mail. These packages. Knowing that they were so thoughtfully put together just for me. That a complete stranger shared with me the intimacies of their favourite things and that someone took the effort and had the patients to make it happen. Wow.

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eleonora - Je passe pour vous souhaiter mes vœux par ce petit message, car je vais être absente pendant les fêtes.

Noël se nourrira de miel, de brioche et de lumière
Nous tremperons dans le bon café chaud la bûche
A la belle saveur de crème vanille et chocolat
Mille flocons de sucre glace tombent aux quatre coins de l’hiver
Et la maisonnée rêve à tous tes cadeaux, beau Père Noël.
Pour cette nouvelle année, Je n’ai que quelques vœux à formuler : La joie, le bonheur, l’amour et, bien sûr, la santé !
Que ces jours de festivités vous enveloppent de joie de vivre ! Et, que celle-ci se poursuive tout au long des mois qui viendront égayer vos jours de soleil.
Joyeux Noël,
Bonne et Heureuse année 2009 !

Steamykitchen - love the idea of blogging by mail!

Rosa - What a pretty log! Beautiful! Great job!

Blogging By Mail is an awesome idea…

Cheers,

Rosa

food+photography

Dayna McIsaac, Food Stylist, Recipe Developer, Food Writer

Blogging By Mail