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Food-tography:
Digital camera with a "Food" Setting
Pick
up your camera.
Scroll through the pictures.
Do you have some food shots?
If you say yes, you are not alone.
"These
days, food porn seems almost to be giving the old-fashioned kind a
run for its money. Everyone with a digital camera and an appetite
fancies him or herself an amateur food pornographer, which is to say
there's a lot of bad food photography out there alongside the good
stuff.
Camera
companies are catching on to the trend and trying to make a buck,
with digital point and shoot models that are manufactured with food
photography settings, like this
Olympus which has a "cuisine" option, and this
Sony, with its "gourmet food" mode."
If
you don't have a camera with a food setting, don't rush out to buy
one that does. Use natural light, macro-mode if needed, or sharpening
features in Photoshop. Besides the brands mentioned, food settings
extend to almost all brands of digital cameras.
quoted
excerpts: slashfood.com
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Hale
Macrobiotic Restaurant
Hale
Restaurant situated in between the Pacific Guardian Building and the
Walmart on Keeaumoku St. is one of the few places in Hawaii that serves
"modern macrobiotic cuisine."
Kuruma-Fu
Cutlet with Apple Miso Sauce- the lunch portion
"Kuruma" means "wheel" in Japanese, which describes
the shape of the
"Fu" which is made out of unbleached wheat flour and gluten
Hale dishes consist of locally grown, seasonal and organic ingredients.
Chef Moco Kubota believes in the macrobiotic way of eating, which
includes lots of grains, vegetables, some bean foods, and a few items
from nuts, seeds, fruits and fish. This is a great place for the lactose-intolerant
as Hale does not use dairy products. All their desserts have no eggs,
refined sugar and dairy ingredients- a chocolate mousse without eggs?
That is an undertaking in itself!
Price
Ranges: Lunch ~$10; Dinner $15-35
Check
out their website at: HaleMacro.com
More on macrobiotic at: Wikipedia-
Macrobiotic Diet
