I'm a movie star!

My friends I. and V. had been playing recently with creating and editing videos, so the last time we had a dinner together at me place they recorded me doing two simple cooking demos, and now I have them on video:




I got so excited about the videos that I put them on my cooking website and in both my blogs, and now I am thinking of what else I can do on camera: boil water? crack an egg? make Turkish coffee?

Photo session

After making my culinary business website public, I sent it out to everyone I know to evaluate.


So it's been reviewed by food stylists (seems to be OK), chefs and food enterpreneurs (very little response yet, looks like everyone is on vacations), a few food fans, and a number of Internet security specialists. It appears that from the point of view of Internet security, browser compartability, usability, and other technical issues, I'm all right - I've been checked by the best.


On the other hand, the response from USPCA message board is limited and mostly critical - I don't know whether they have seen too many personal chef sites, or just use old computers with obsolete browsers, - but they complain about too small fonts, old boring content, and drab colors.

After my friend M., neither food nor Internet professional, but a charming lady with lots of connections, saw my site, she wanted the buckwheat pancakes from the top picture so badly that she arranged for two friends, one photography inthusiast, another a new home owner with a nice kitchen with a view, to have a photo session where I made the pancakes, and they photographed me.

So last Saturday M. and the guys got the pancakes, and I got photos for my website. I tend to get very stiff and forget to smile on the camera, even though I don't get a stage fright. Luckily, a glass or two of wine relax me just fine. On Sunday I brought snacks to Y.'s sailboat, and got photographed again.

This Sunday I had my friends I. and V. over for dinner, and they videotaped me dressing a salad and grilling vegetables. I haven't seen the videos yet, but I bet I forgot to smile again. The salad and vegs came out great though.