the blue­ber­ry or the muf­fin? you decide

Might I inter­rupt what­ev­er excit­ing activ­i­ties are occu­py­ing you, dear read­ers, at this moment, and ask your opinion?

I am about to meet with a sim­ply SUB­LIME food pho­tog­ra­ph­er here in Lon­don, about pos­si­bly (so excit­ing!) tak­ing pho­tographs for my even­tu­al “book.” Now here are some things I am won­der­ing. And the rea­son I am ask­ing you? Because she said, “You must ask your­self who your audi­ence is to be.”

I am hop­ing it will be YOU.

So. Do you like to look at/read/use food­ie books that include pho­tographs of ingre­di­ents, or of dish­es in progress, or of fin­ished dish­es? I sup­pose the ingre­di­ent-based illus­tra­tions are more art­sy, more for the joy of look­ing, where the dish-in-progress or fin­ished dish might be more instruc­tion­al. Does that make sense?

For exam­ple, the pho­tographs above give you an idea of the sort of choice I am imag­in­ing. What do you like? One or the oth­er, or both, or some­thing else entirely?

If you have an opin­ion on this sub­ject, do take a moment to let me know. It’s all get­ting stu­pen­dous­ly thrilling. And thank you!