Food Writing & Styling

My food writing and styling work was first published as Editorial work for Taste Magazine in 2004. Below is an example of my recently published work;
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Baked Eggplant and Cheese Sandwich, styling and food photography by Vanessa Lewis.

​Inspiration for these delicious little Orange butterfly cakes came from an original 100-year-old NZ cook book. They remind me of the little orange cup cakes that my mother used to make when I was a child.  
​The shoot was for 'Backyard Abundance', to use home grown fruit in recipes – this was styled
in my own  back yard with
Vanessa Lewis. 

Strawberry and Rhubarb Jam, plus Old fashioned Blackberry Bramble Pie, below with photos by Vanessa Lewis

photography by Carolyn Robertson@Think Photography. 

2013-14, I learnt to take 'basic' food photos while at MFB, inspiration for this recipe came from my days of travelling through the Greek Islands and living on the island of Crete.

I love to experiment with natural food, here I have used beetroot to dye some 'old lace linen napkins', I shot this with homegrown zucchini flowers and made zucchini noodles ( *look for the recipes in SUMMER section) published in Jan/Feb Nadia Magazine 2018. 

Dried chillies from my garden, photos by Vanessa Lewis.