I'm an LA-based music photographer with a soft spot for the kitchen. I've been cooking since I was a wee tot; it's a great way to be creative without being completely self-indulgent. Sinful foods for people with dietary restrictions; vegan, vegetarian, sugar-free, gluten-free, wheat-free, low-calorie... stuff like that. Hey, just because we're healthy doesn't mean we don't have tastebuds. Apple pie in the fall/winter. Mmph. Vegetarian Chick'n' salad. I don't even give out the recipe for that one. I know, I know! But can't a girl have just one secret? I once made a bayard (vegetarian free-for-all casserole) with some rice that had gotten a little burnt... since it was the last of the rice and I couldn't make more, I thought for sure that if I scraped the blackened parts out, no one would notice. It was like eating something off the bottom of a fireplace.