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In the past few years, the art of food photography has boomed along with social media. Everyone wants to share with the world the delicious food they’re about to eat.
Today’s special guest has made a career of taking pictures of the meals she prepares for her family. Debi Traub is best known for her recipe and food photography blog, Simply Beautiful Eating. Simply Beautiful Eating focuses on creating beautiful dishes that are good for you, too.
Debi credits her love and talent for cooking colorful, healthy meals to her 95-year-old mother -- so you can just imagine how healthy her cooking must be!
Healthy Eating: Eat With Your Eyes
Debi calls meals that are low in nutrition, taste, and creativity as the three B’s: bland, boring, and “blech.”
Whether we realize it or not, we eat with our eyes before we actually taste our food. We’re naturally drawn to dishes with bright, beautiful, colorful ingredients -- and they tend to be quite nutritional, too.
The meals featured on Simply Beautiful Eating are all of those things -- flavorful, colorful, and healthy. In fact, many of the ingredients Debi uses for her food photography blog are picked from her husband’s garden.
Go Organic or Go Home
Fresh foods don’t just taste great, they also provide us with the maximum nutrients. Cooking with fresh, organic foods is a surefire way for your meals to be full of the things our bodies need -- without the stuff it doesn’t.
You can get fresh foods from the grocery store, but Debi recommends buying from a farmer’s market or growing your own produce.
“One of my favorite things is to stand in that garden and pick out everything we can use in the kitchen,” Debi says.
You can find Debi’s food photography blog and her fresh food recipes at Simply Beautiful Eating.
Beauty Blogger Meets Academia
Are the ingredients in expensive, luxury skin care and makeup better than those in cheaper brands?
Rachel Anise joins us today to make a case for both drugstore and luxury cosmetics. Rachel is the editor-in-chief of the highly acclaimed luxury beauty blog, the Beauty Professor and is also a full-time Communication Studies professor in the Los Angeles area.
After scoring a publishing deal with a fellow professor, Rachel discovered her love of writing to an audience. By becoming a luxury beauty blogger, Rachel’s academic and beauty worlds converged so well that she found her calling.
How Effective are Luxury Cosmetics Really?
Rachel’s blog is dedicated to giving honest reviews on beauty products, specifically luxury brands. Yves Saint Laurent, Giorgio Armani, and Burberry Beauty are just a few of the designer luxury brands that grace her blog.
“Luxury brands aren’t necessarily better than drugstore brands,” she says. Rachel cites her allergy to lanolin, a common beauty product ingredient, as the initial reason she was drawn to more expensive cosmetics. “To me, their limited nature makes them, in addition to their price, ingredients, and company, a luxury brand.”
For honest reviews on designer cosmetics and clothing, visit Rachel’s website at www.beautyprofessor.net.