shooting pictures for my book

It took a village to shoot the pictures for my book, or at least a few good farmer friends and whole crew from New York. Photographer Marcus Nilsson, his assistant Joy, prop stylist Harry, Food stylist Victoria Granoff (alonghotsimmer.com) and her assistant Karen, and my editor Luisa Weiss (thewednesdaychef.com) constituted the New York crew, arriving with everything they needed to reproduce 30 recipes and shoot them on site. While Marcus photographed my Label Rouge meat chickens, the flock of mixed laying hens, the spotted guinea fowl and our three Icelandic sheep for the book, we also shot Pat and Bob Haas's Dexter cow and newborn calf, and Noah Hoskin's Berkshire pigs and beef cattle, along with photographs of wood piles, barn board textures, landscape and trees in full autumn color. Getting fully into the Vermont spirit, Victoria picked the last green tomatoes from Lizzie's garden, took them back to Brooklyn, and made green tomato catsup. See more here