Put It On My Plate

Projects filed under: Photography

  • The 'Ohana Grill Cookbook front cover features a blue background with a plate of grilled kebobs
The ‘Ohana Grill Cookbook: Easy and Delicious Hawai‘i-Inspired Recipes from BBQ Chicken to Kalbi Short Ribs by Adrienne Robillard | Ulysses Press, 2020 Experience a taste of Hawai‘i in your own backyard with 50 flavor-packed and family-friendly barbecue recipes, including...

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Ulysses Press
  • Hawaiian Food Sampler - wooden bowls of poi, squid luau, kalua pig, chicken long rice and lomi salmon arranged on a wooden plate around a pork lau lau, with four pieces of purple sweet potato.
Highway Inn food photography | multiple sessions (2020) Founded in 1947, Highway Inn has been family-owned and -operated for more than 70 years, offering Hawaiian and “local” American comfort food. With three locations (Kaka‘ako, Waipahu and Bishop Museum), the restaurant...

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Highway Inn
  • A program for Tutu's Kitchen on a wooden plate
Tūtū’s Kitchen at Highway Inn communications, project development and management, event coordination | Highway Inn, 2019 In Hawaiian, tūtū means “grandparent” or beloved elder. Tūtū’s Kitchen by Highway Inn shares the food and stories passed down by generations of locals....

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Highway Inn
  • Cake Works Bakery - Halloween Cupcakes - assorted miniature cupcakes with monster sugar decorations sitting on a cobweb design paper.
Cake Works Bakery food photography | multiple sessions (2019-2020, 2021-2022) Cake Works is a full-scale bakery, producing an array of french macarons, gourmet eclairs, scones, decorated cookies, marshmallows, cupcakes and other treats. The bakery stepped up their social media presence...

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Cake Works Bakery
  • Red Barn Farmstand Chicken Souvlaki Wrap - chicken and lettuce in a spinach wrap on a white plate with orange flowers
Red Barn Farmstand menu items and product photography | multiple sessions (2016-2018) The Red Barn Farmstand menu launched with multiple farm-fresh creations, with additional packaged food products and home goods for sale in the retail farmstand store. The ever-changing menu...

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Red Barn Farmstand
  • Red Barn Farmstand against a blue sky with a field of sunflowers in the foreground
Red Barn Farmstand project management, marketing & publicity, social media management, writing, photography, event planning/coordination, business maintenance | September 2016 – May 2018 The Red Barn Farmstand, a unique business in Hale‘iwa on the North Shore of O‘ahu, launched as...

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Red Barn Farmstand
  • Waialua Estate employees show off handfuls of cacao beans standing amidst drying racks containing cacao beans.
Waialua Estate Photo Shoot photography | Waialua Estate Coffee and Cacao Waialua Estate Coffee and Cacao farms coffee and cacao on O‘ahu’s North Shore, and processes both crops in their own facilities. Waialua Estate coffee and chocolate are available in...

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Waialua Estate Coffee and Cacao
  • Holoholo General Store Fiesta Salad - a white square bowl on a wooden table, filled with corn kernels, tomatoes and kale pieces
Holoholo General Store photography, writing Holoholo General Store is the umbrella that shelters the Red Barn Farmstand, Holoholo Farm, a food hub distribution network and a robust community-supported agriculture (CSA) program. Holoholo General Store’s team was the inaugural first-place winner of...

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Holoholo General Store
  • Local Citrus Salad - slices of oranges, tangerines and grapefruit laid in concentric overlapping circles on a white platter, with proscuitto and a sprinkle of chopped green herbs on top.
Foodland Hawaii “Eat Local Tuesdays” Newsletter photography & research | Foodland Hawaii, 2016-2017 A family-owned local company, Foodland Hawaii grocery stores supports local agriculture and food production with their “Eat Local Tuesdays” campaign. In 2016-2017, a bi-weekly newsletter featured articles on...

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Foodland Hawaii
  • From Kau Kau to Cuisine by Arnold Hiura, front cover
From Kau Kau to Cuisine: An Island Cookbook, Then and Now by Arnold Hiura, featuring Derek Kurisu and Jason Takemura | Watermark Publishing, 2013 From fine dining to food trucks, Hawai‘i’s contemporary cuisine is indelibly influenced by its small-town plantation past. From Kau...

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Watermark Publishing
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