Diptychs from Las Californias

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Research Article| February 01 2023 Diptychs from Las Californias Jess Stephens Jess Stephens Jess Stephens is a photographer based in Los Angeles. Pre-pandemic, she worked as a pastry chef in restaurants across the United States. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Gastronomica (2023) 23 (1): 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2023.23.1.1 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jess Stephens; Diptychs from Las Californias. Gastronomica 1 February 2023; 23 (1): 1–4. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2023.23.1.1 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentGastronomica Search These diptychs are selections from an ongoing personal project about how food is grown and consumed in California. As a Los Angeles transplant, I am particularly compelled by the state’s ecosystem of farmers, street food, and produce most home cooks can only imagine. In this work, I center the stewardship of a wide group of people from the moment a date palm is hand-pollinated to the minutes before marinated pork chops are seared off on a restaurant grill. I’m also interested in how visual patterns from disparate corners of nature overlap with and without human intervention. For example, the barnacles fanning out from a shallow rock on Venice Beach mimic the layers of leaves and fruit at Garcia Organic Farm, a citrus orchard cultivated on the steep hills of De Luz. The sugar crystals lining a cookie’s soft exterior evoke the same shine as the sugars in a sun-ripened date.... You do not currently have access to this content.