Another great day shooting with Jason Dell, celebrity chef from Blanket Bay lodge. Jason was preparing food from his foodbook Savvy at Mt Difficulty for The Central Otago Pinot Noir Festival.
Seresin’s is owned by famous movie director Michael Seresin’s and on top of having the beautiful winery he also have a small timber cabin nestled amongst native bush overlooking Waterfall Bay in the Marlborough Sounds and every year he invites top chefs to cook for a selected few guest.
This year Jason Dell was invited to cook. Jason also did a presentation of his book and I was there to cover the whole thing. An amazing evening took place and it’s hard to find a better setting.
Savvy is an amazing project shot over 5 months in Queenstown and Wanaka. Jason Dell is the head chef at world renowned Blanket Bay lodge in Glenorchy and approached me months ago about with his book project and after a few coffees and meetings we were on the way.
We shot the whole book in the area using Blanket bay and several other kitchens around Wanaka and Queenstown.
All dishes were shot within 2 minutes from Jason finished making them so it was all lot of pressure to get all set ups right to get the best shot but also a great feeling shooting fresh food using no artificial methods or set ups.
The book was published by Harper Collins and sold by Paper Plus all over New Zealand
