Lily Venable is the region's leading specialist for professional farm and food photography, capturing the vibrant bounty of Midwestern farms and chefs with special detail and reverence, in addition to photojournalism, offering marketing resources to small businesses, and powerful wellness advocacy.
Long before biscuits were coming out of the oven, the building that now houses Bosio Biscuit Company was serving the community in other ways as the Tapiola Co-op. Today, owner Stephen Bosio gives it a new purpose–one built on scratch cooking, local food, and making the most out of everything (the ingredients, people, and ideas) that comes through its doors. Founded by Finnish immigrants in the late nineteenth century, the small, rural township of Tapiola was built on the Finn
I started food photography with an iPhone 11 taking pictures of poke bowls. My $11 lunch, about fifty hashtags, and a kitschy Instagram filter - it was the pinnacle of 2016 innocence. Fast forward ten years to this weekend, when I drove two hours and hauled thousands of dollars worth of equipment into a commercial kitchen where a private chef unveiled the dish she’d like me to photograph: a poke bowl. I had to pause and sit with that, feeling the cosmic weight of a full-circl