A term that makes me giggle is ‘food porn’. You’ve seen it in recipe books: close up shots of glistening food, saturated colours, inviting textures… Touch me! Eat me! Love me! Mmmmm, drool.

Digital Photography School offers an introduction to becoming a food porn artist. Choice magazine exposes the amount of primping and styling needed to produce drool-worthy photos. Tips include:

• If you’re not advertising the ice cream, you might decide to go fake — coloured mashed potato can make a reasonable substitute.
• If your Swiss cheese isn’t looking photogenic enough, enhance its holes — use little round cutters or even straws for small holes.
• Spray deodorant can give a nice frosting to grapes.

Hmm, I suspect my blog will now be flooded with visitors who have put ‘porn’ and maybe ‘coconut’ into some search engine. Nothing to see here, guys. Sorry to disappoint.

Damjan called this ‘Emperor Cake’. There were lots of walnuts in the recipe.

Kate, Damjan and I had breakfast in Bendigo a few years ago. Wow, has it really been that long?

You’ve seen this photo before. But in the spirit of food porn, I have increased the saturation and used a soft focus. One of my favourite things about hanging out with Damjan is his keenness for making (and eating) bread.