FOOD
Fantastic Feasts
Photographer Jessica Pettway, food stylist Victoria Granof, and retoucher
Zach Vitale take us behind the scenes of the wildly creative Please Wait to Be Tasted, a new cookbook from queer-run Hudson Valley eatery Lil’ Deb’s Oasis
All photos by Jessica Pettway.
Video credits: cinematography by Jon Gourlay; color and editing by Leila Lorenz; set design by Stephanie Yeh.
Please Wait to Be Tasted: The Lil’ Deb’s Oasis Cookbook hits stores June 21, 2022.
For any photo project, it’s common for a client to build a creative brief that shows how they envision the images coming together. This is a page from the creative deck the Lil’ Deb’s team put together—a deck that, in its specificity and wildness, was like no other the photo team had ever seen.
A spread from the book.
Jessica’s first cookbook? LaBelle Cuisine: Recipes to Sing About, which was actually her mom’s—who still has it.
