Food Photography Trends

Remember the days when you used to photograph your dinner, get your snaps and post it to your instagram and another social media to show your friends what you ate? Since 2013 untill now it has been the year of instant food photography.  Like all things, there are trends in photography.  And it’s very easy to fall into a trend because it’s what you see, every day.  It’s easy when you are starting out to be highly influenced by a trend because often, our first instinct is to try to imitate what we see – it helps us to learn and improve our technical skills. 

Most people love looking at mouth-watering images of food, and now i have plenty at my fingertips. #Food was the fourth top hashtag for Instagram. Want to know who to watch? Check out some of this year’s hottest foodie instagrammers and bloggers.

Joy the Baker

On Joy the Baker, you will find recipes for everything from simple classics, like apple pies and chocolate chip cookies, to unique twists on the basics, such as french onion soup sandwiches and handmade, fresh pastas. 

Instagram : joythebaker

April Bloomfield

April Bloomfield is a chef, recipe writer and author of ‘One Girl and her Pig’. Brought up in Birmingham, April now resides in New York where she’s earned a Michelin star for her gastropub the ‘Spotted Pig’. From the very finest food shots to behind the scenes pics of the chefs at work, there are plenty of photos to get your mouth watering. Visit her site here.

Instagram : aprilbloomfield

Ida Frosk

Ida Frosk is The Nor­we­gian photographer / foodie draws inspi­ra­tion from every­day life to serve up a daily stream of amaz­ing break­fast art using ingre­di­ents found in her kitchen. Found out her breakfast idea here

Instagram :  idafrosk

Sunday suppers

Karen Mordechai is a photographer and food stylist from Brooklyn. Beautifully coloured baked fall fruits and crostini of ricotta, squash, prosciutto and pomegranate are some of our favourite pictures to just stare at for a while. Check it out here

Instagram : sundaysuppers

Julie's Kitchen

Fresh and stunning photos of recipes and seasonal and local spreads of fruit and vegetables from local farmers markets or Julie’s own urban garden, but never from a store. From persimmon date shakes and strawberry mojito sorbet there are lots of photos on her site to feast your eyes on.

Instagram : julieskitchen

Love and lemons

Jeanine Donofrio and her husband Jack are authors of the blog Love and Lemons as well as an Instagram page full of images of fresh and healthy, vegetarian food that has a lot of imagination too. From quinoa quesadillas to mini vegan pumpkin pies to kale stem pesto, you won’t be going hungry for nice things to stare at.

Instagram :loveandlemons

Top with cinnamon

Seventeen year old Londoner Izy Hossack's Instagram account is a bit like browsing through the diary of that really cool girl from school, but this one can also make really amazing food. Influenced by her American-Italian mum, you can expect to find delights like salted caramel filled molten chocolate cakes and golden pumpkin pancakes. Visit her site here  

Instagram : topwithcinnamon

Am signing up now and Happy drooling people. 

"Lakoca Cuanki" Delicious Instant Snack from Bandung city

In last post i wrote about how the instant food trend being so popular nowdays. This food item, so easy to prepare and store, that's why instant food are perfectly suits the hectic pace of modern life nowdays.  In Indonesia, this trend are also increasingly playing an important role in  day  life. Many large to small food company try to find an inovative idea to make instant food. 

I live in Bandung city for almost 9 years. The people of Bandung are never lack in creativity. Each day, there will be a brand new things invented in this city, including food. Bandung is well known as the source of creative and unique food in Indonesia. You can find a lot of cheap restaurants in Bandung. In Indonesia there is famous snack a meatball culinary, Bandung city also have its own meatball cuisine, which is cuanki. From the name of it, you may guess that it is a Chinese cuisine, but it is not. Cuanki is actually an acronym from Bahasa Indonesia, ‘Cari Uang jalan kaki’, which means ‘makes some money by foot/walking’. That is because these foods are generally sell with a cart or pole carried by the merchant. Cuanki’s concept is similar to meatballs, with beef meatballs and refined processed flour is sprinkled with savory sauce, then sprinkled with chopped celery leaves and the most important is fried dumplings, sometimes it's add by tofu and meatballs too.

Cuanki

Original Cuanki

Cuanki man

As i said earlier,Bandung people are never lack in creativity, yes they are! because now, you don't have wait too long for mamang cuangki ( merchant of cuanki) come to your neighbourhood to enjoy cuanki, because now there is an instant cuanki. 

Cuanki Lakoca is the first Cuanki instant cup in Bandung city, Indonesia and the whole world :D .  Cuanki Lakoca based in Cimahi, Bandung owned by young enterpreneur named Ocha. It's really easy to prepare, just add hot water, yes! it's the same way like you always do when you make an instant noodle.  Just add hot water, wait 3-5 minutes , add the ingredients and the instant cuanki is ready to eat! You have to taste this snack! It's really delicious and tastefull. And when the rain falls down, i think it's the best way to enjoy Cuanki Lakoca. It'll warm your body up! If oneday you visit Bandung city Don't forget to bring lakoca home and let's enjoy the cuanki lakoca with someone you love.  

Cuanki Lakoca

Bandung is the place for culinary lovers as it homes to a lot of traditional yet unique food in Indonesia. You can find cheap restaurants in Bandung easily, each with its own unique dishes. If you want to try a traditional yet delicious food of Bandung, try Cuanki Lakoca. A portion of cuanki Lakoca  will make you want to eat more and more. If you're not live in Bandung city, don't worry you still can order via online too.

For more info about cuanki Lakoca you can contact via :

sms/whatsapp: +62 81321034343
Twitter : @infolakoca

Facebook : infolakoca

Instant Food Trends

Contemporary urban lifestyle, fast-paced and frenetic, have led to the evolution of the concept of convenience foods. With time being invaluable to all, "Instant Foods" are increasingly playing an important role in our day-to-day life. Instant Noodle have become one of the world's most popular food items owing to the versatility and convenience. This Product is one of the first ready-to-eat food launched widely in the global food industry and now it has successfully become an important part of modern food consumption.  This food item, so easy to prepare and store, perfectly suits the hectic pace of modern life. It was back in 1958 that the founder of Nissin Food Products, Andō Momofuku, came up with the idea for instant ramen. Since then, the noodles have become a favorite of people around the globe, with production spreading overseas. As of 2011, the annual consumption of instant ramen had reached 98 billion packages (according to the World Instant Noodles Association). South Korea has the highest per-capita consumption (at around 74.1 packages a year), while China and Indonesia consume the greatest amount overall. 

In a little shed behind his home in the town of Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, Momofuku started work on a invention for quickly making  ramen at home by just adding hot water. He worked alone, sleeping only four hours a night and without a day off for an entire year. Chicken Ramen, the product of many trial and error experiments, was dubbed "magic ramen" and became an instant popular sensation.

On a fact finding trip to America, Momofuku observes supermarket managers breaking up Chicken Ramen noodles, putting them in a cup, pouring in hot water, and then eating them with a fork. It was then that Momofuku realized that moving past conceptions about how we eat was the key to making instant ramen a global food. By bringing together all sorts of wisdom and innovative ideas, CUPNOODLES transformed "made in Japan" instant ramen into a global food.

Cups noodle were the second instant noodle innovation that really took the food trend in the world. Nissin founder Momofuku Ando of Japan decided that a cup would be a really handy way to have instant noodles on the go. His creation came to the market in 1971. Forty-two years later, the instant noodle landscape is filled with many different cup designs and contents – some all inclusive only needing hot water,m and some requiring a little more with packets – and some even with forks! FEW THINGS could seem more mundane than a packet of instant noodles. Dinner of last resort, bought in bulk, ready in minutes, instant noodles are cheap, unremarkable food. As culinary trends come and go, the cup noodle trend endures, : not good for you, but inexpensive and tasty enough.

Pursuing his long held dream to invent a ramen that can be eaten in space, Momofuku started work on Space Ramen. Along with applying various techniques for eating in weightless environments, Space Ramen is based on the hot oil instant drying method that Momofuku invented in 1958. With Space Ramen, Momofuku's creative thinking transcended the bounds of earth to contribute to creating food that people can eat even in space.

Nowdays, The current trend of instant food is getting more popular. The trend of life nowadays is very hectic and  harsh, people are all in a hurry. They have no time to cook their food so the making of instant foods was raised in order to compensate hunger even when we are on the run to meeting our requirements, appointments and other matters. Now, not just noodle, even you can enjoy a lot of variety of instant food mixes offered  without much effort. There are many various instant food that you can enjoy. Easy to cook! Easy to eat! and I think there's nothing wrong with instant foods, but  it really depends on how often you eat that stuff. If you have it once in a while, that's perfectly fine. However, if you live off of it, that's a completely different story. So, be wise to choose what food that  you want to eat,guys! and stay healthy!