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    Food

    “People who love food are always the best kind of people.” Julia Child.

    Well then, I must be absolutely fabulous. I love all things food: growing it, shopping for it, cooking it, styling it, shooting it, learning about it, talking about it, thinking about it, eating it…ya get the idea.

    Technically speaking, I eat everything. But practically speaking, I eat a predominantly plant based diet (roughly 80%). I’ve learned - especially post spinal trauma - to listen my body, as it generally knows much better than my mind what it needs. What my body needs is different than what your body needs. And what my body needs today is different than what it needed yesterday and what it will need tomorrow. But the one food category I do try to cut out as much as humanly possible is processed shit! And I believe that all bodies, regardless of how different we all are, can truly benefit from doing so as well. Get that processed shit away from me I say!

    We vote for what kind of world we want to live in by what we choose to eat.

    I love food from the earth. What farmers harvested that day and brought to the market is my very all time favorite. I celebrate fresh bounty and all its perfectly imperfect imperfections. I invest time in getting to know the rad folks that grow the beautiful food that ends up on my client’s plates, and my own.

    I shy away from broadly labeling food as “good” or “bad” and instead prefer to always buy the highest quality I can. No two butters are the same, no two olives oils, no two creams. So splurge a bit and buy the good stuff if ya can. Your body will thank ya! And I believe in moderation, in all things, including moderation itself.

    “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well if one has not dined well.” Virginia Woolf

    Beet cured salmon board with colorful seasonal produce arranged like a rainbow; overhead shot.

    Beet Cured Salmon

    Challah Dough cinnamon rolls with an ube cream cheese frosting all done and ready to be eaten! Overhead shot on a black background.

    Challah Dough Cinnamon Rolls

    Purple sweet potato pie has been topped with pecan streusel.

    Purple Sweet Potato Pie

    Turmeric Curry Noodle Soup in a large cast iron dutch oven with lots of colorful veggies and tofu; overhead shot.

    Turmeric Curry Noodle Soup

    Cranberry, White Chocolate and Oatmeal stuffed Cookies; on a baking tray with parchment paper; stuffed ith either cranberry cream cheese or vanilla mascarpone, all done!

    Cranberry, White Chocolate & Oatmeal Stuffed Cookies

    cranberry chicken pre-oven, in process shot - seared chicken in cast iron skillet with fresh cranberries; overhead shot on black background.

    Cranberry Chicken

    Red Okra in a silver little skillet on a white background; overhead shot.

    All Red Okra Things

    Post sear and pre-oven pork chop overhead shot; chops are with the cranberry sauce in a cast iron skillet with a red linen on the handle; black background.

    Fresh Cranberry Pork Chops

    Cacio e Porcini Paradiso pasta with mushrooms and burrata on a pink plate with gold silverware and black background; overhead shot.

    Cacio e Porcini Paradiso Pasta

    Daniela Gerson wearing jewelry and holding a silver muffin tin filled with challah babka buns, all with different color and type of jam; overhead shot.

    Challah Babka Buns

    Pomegranate Chicken topped with pomegranate arils and parsley, in cast iron skillet on a white background; overhead shot.

    Pomegranate Chicken

    Small purple potatoes cut intro rounds, rounds are on a black baking sheet sprinkled with salt and overhead shot.

    All Things Purple Potatoes

    Overhead raw Purple Brussels sprout shot! The sprout are whole an you can really see all their veins and texture of the leaves.

    All Things Cooking with Purple Brussels Sprouts

    Pink apples, cut in half, revealing their pink flesh, overhead shot.

    All Pretty Pink Apples Things

    Fig Cake just out of the oven, overhead shot.

    Fig Cake

    Rainbow tomatoes! A flatly image of a rainbow made out of different heirloom tomatoes. There's red, orange, yellow, green, white, and purple tomatoes.

    REAL Rainbow Tomatoes

    Pickled plums with star anise, cinnamon, pink peppercorns and pickling brine, overhead shot on a black background.

    Pickled Fruit

    Close up shot: Peach Salad with Burrata & Crispy Bacon, all assembled, overhead shot.

    Peach Salad with Burrata and Crispy Prosciutto

    berry glatte - post oven! Overhead shot of a very colorful mixed berry galette.

    Berry Galette

    cooked fruit! strawberries and blueberries all cooked and just out of the oven with vanilla beans, thyme and cinnamon sticks, overhead shot.

    Cooked Fruit

    overhead shot of red wine braised short ribs, topped with parsley and ready to be served.

    Red Wine Braised Short Ribs

    Hummus with tahini topped with cumin seed oil, garlic, crispy garbanzo beans, and fresh herbs; served with crispy pita chips; overhead shot.

    Hummus with Tahini

    post oven shot of the chickpeas with cumin, smoked paprika, urfa chili, sumac, salt and olive oil; on a cookie sheet and ready to be eaten.

    Crispy Chickpeas

    up close and overhead shot of orange and fennel salad

    Orange & Fennel Salad

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    Meet Daniela

    VEGGIES ARE SEXY 

    Hi, I'm Daniela - a Los Angeles based food photographer and creative director. I began my career as a chef with a passion for sourcing colorful produce from local markets. I love emphasizing the beauty of real food with my images. I’m also a food stylist and recipe developer with a gorgeous prop-filled studio in Venice, California.

    Daniela Gerson Photography

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