Salame Piacentino

We arrived at the end of Emilia. Here we find Piacenza and its traditional salami. 

The Salame Piacentino is a PDO (Protected Designation of Origin), coarse-minced salami, firm but still a bit soft and with its lean part of a bright red while the fatis white. I prefer it for a quick snack where more seasoned and spicy salami would be too challenging for the palate. With its straight and simple taste is perfect instead to be put into two slices of bread, and served you are!


(Alessandro Guerani is a professional photographer specialized in food shooting. He lives in Bologna, Italy, and is available for assignments to create the images you always craved. Read the "About me" or contact him using the "Mail me" in the blog menu above.)

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"Felino con la Michetta"

Travelling to Parma you can find another salami with a curious name: "il Felino" (the feline). 

Firm and seasoned, it should be eaten with the traditional michetta bred.

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"Tigelle" and Lard from Modena

Everyone talks about the lard from Colonnata in Tuscany. But its "humble" cousin, produced in the Appennino mountains behind Modena, has its dignity. 

Slice it thinly and put into a hot "tigella" (a kind of small mountain bread typical of that zone) so it could slightly melt inside, giving its flavor. You'll have a very simple but irresistible snack, perfect for these cold winter evenings.


(Alessandro Guerani is a professional photographer specialized in food shooting. He lives in Bologna, Italy, and is available for assignments to create the images you always craved. Read the "About me" or contact him using the "Mail me" in the blog menu above.)

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"La Zia con le Streghe"

Emilian salami. Salami with curious names. Like this one which is named "Zia" (aunt in Italian), a tender, garlic flavored salami,  typical of Ferrara.

And considering we're now in Ferrara there's nothing better to eat it together with "Streghe" (witches in Italian), a sort of handmade "crackers"  which have a huge problem: you cannot stop to eat them while saying to yourself  "ok, just another one, it won't make me any worse".

(Alessandro Guerani is a professional photographer specialized in food shooting. He lives in Bologna, Italy, and is available for assignments to create the images you always craved. Read the "About me" or contact him using the "Mail me" in the blog menu above.)

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Crescenta with Bologna Salami

This week salami will be my subjects. Emilian salami. And starting from my hometown here it is the typical bolognese snack: crescenta and bologna salami.


Don't be fooled by your first impression, it's light and dietetic! Ok, maybe not, but it's the closest thing to heaven for people here in Bologna.


(Alessandro Guerani is a professional photographer specialized in food shooting. He lives in Bologna, Italy, and is available for assignments to create the images you always craved. Read the "About me" or contact him using the "Mail me" in the blog menu above.)

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Orange Juice

Today the last shot about orange fruits, well... "used" orange fruits.

(Alessandro Guerani is a professional photographer specialized in food shooting. He lives in Bologna, Italy, and is available for assignments to create the images you always craved. Read the "About me" or contact him using the "Mail me" in the blog menu above.)

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Orange Fruit

A "simple" subject requires additional work for the photographer.


You need to have a strong idea how to present it in an interesting way, be very careful about composition and, above all, think about light as something that gives life to the image pulling it out of its forced two dimensions.

(Alessandro Guerani is a professional photographer specialized in food shooting. He lives in Bologna, Italy, and is available for assignments to create the images you always craved. Read the "About me" or contact him using the "Mail me" in the blog menu above.)

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Orange Fruits

After the Victorian splendors of the sunday shot in these days we  explore one of the simplest and "humblest" subject, the orange fruit, through three different images.

(Alessandro Guerani is a professional photographer specialized in food shooting. He lives in Bologna, Italy, and is available for assignments to create the images you always craved. Read the "About me" or contact him using the "Mail me" in the blog menu above.)

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Sunday Coffee Breakfast

Sometimes I like to live as it were a romance. This is how I'd like to have my sunday morning breakfast, a nice coffee cup in a Victorian setting.


(Alessandro Guerani is a professional photographer specialized in food shooting. He lives in Bologna, Italy, and is available for assignments to create the images you always craved. Read the "About me" or contact him using the "Mail me" in the blog menu above.)

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Snow and Saba

Speaking with a friend yesterday she told me about her father who prepared a sort of granita with fresh snow and saba.

Do you know what is saba? In Emilia Romagna saba is must cooked  to become syrup and was used by farmers as an "affordable" sweetener. Nowadays it is a delicacy not easily found, but that I personally love for its very special flavor that resembles (resembles only) the best balsamic vinegar. Well, I must confess that, after shooting the photo, very few of that spoonful of saba and snow remained ;)


(Alessandro Guerani is a professional photographer specialized in food shooting. He lives in Bologna, Italy, and is available for assignments to create the images you always craved. Read the "About me" or contact him using the "Mail me" in the blog menu above.)

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Would You Like a Cup of Snow?

These days I'm almost segregated at home because the weather and the only ingredient of whom I'm plenty it's snow.


So I had the idea to create an image about the old times where with just some snow and some sweet fruit syrup people prepared tasty desserts.

Forgive me for not showing you the syrup, it's in the milk jug, I did some tests and at the end I preferred to not "contaminate" the soft and pure white of the fresh snow with other colors. The recipe is pretty simple anyway, isn't it?

A little hint, being away from my studio I didn't have my lights with me so I had to shot with just the natural afternoon winter light from the window, but as you can see there wasn't any problem, I just needed a solid tripod.

(Alessandro Guerani is a professional photographer specialized in food shooting. He lives in Bologna, Italy, and is available for assignments to create the images you always craved. Read the "About me" or contact him using the "Mail me" in the blog menu above.)

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Anolini in Brodo

Anolini are meat stuffed fresh pasta dumplings typical of Parma and like almost every other kind of Emilian stuffed fresh pasta are best served with meat stock (usually made with capon meat). So you'll be able to taste properly the real dressing of this dish that is not outside, but the precious stuffing inside.


(Alessandro Guerani is a professional photographer specialized in food shooting. He lives in Bologna, Italy, and is available for assignments to create the images you always craved. Read the "About me" or contact him using the "Mail me" in the blog menu above.)

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February 2012 Desktop Calendar

Sorry for the lack of the calendar in January, but I found myself stuck between holidays and work. For this month I'll try to catch up with a journey through space and time.

The February calendar is in fact inspired by a print of Ichiryusai Hiroshige (not to be confused with the more famous Utagawa Hiroshige), a Japanese artist of the first half of 1800 among the first to be appreciated in the West for his realistic style both in the depiction of landscapes, than in everyday scenes including also a wonderful series about fish fauna.

Food~0~grafia monthly desktop calendar is a wallpaper for your PC screen with a food photo and the calendar of the current month.
To set the image as your desktop click on the link at the end of this post with the image dimensions that suit your PC screen and, after the image will load, right-click on it with your mouse (or press ctrl while clicking for some Mac users) and select "Set as Desktop Background..." (or something similar depending on the web browser you're using).

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(Alessandro Guerani is a professional photographer specialized in food shooting. He lives in Bologna, Italy, and is available for assignments to create the images you always craved. Read the "About me" or contact him using the "Mail me" in the blog menu above.)

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