If you haven't already heard the sizzle,
Alison Miksch has been added to the NKreps roster!
She also has a grilling book hot off the presses, and another on the way.
The first cookbook title is
Mastering The Grill – The Owner's Manual For Outdoor Cooking published by Chronicle Books in San Francisco.
The book is targeted toward men knowing men like to play with fire and manage the grill. It's a man's domain. It's organized like an owner's manual to make it comfortable for guys to work with unlike more traditional cookbooks. The focus of the book is the science behind grilling. "We aim to explain how grilling works, how to make grills work better, and how to use simple flavoring and cooking techniques to cook delicious grilled foods."
"If you have ever sacrificed a rack of ribs to the incendiary powers of a backyard grill, or tried to convince yourself that 'black and crusty' is exactly how you like your chicken, then you know firsthand the ambiguous art of cooking over an open flame."
There are the usual suspects like:
Molasses-Brined Pork Chops with Roasted Corn Salsa
Porter House Au Poivre
and
Tuscan Roasted Chicken Stuffed With Fragrant Greens
But then there are the more unusual like:
Grilled Cranberry ChutneyClam Bake on the Grill 
and
Scotch Steaks In The Coals With Stilton Butter
Alison told us how the image of the coals that starts out this post were shot and lit at her indoor studio... and things did get a bit smoky and somewhat out of control at one point. She only warned us that the fire extinguisher definitely came in handy :)
Beautiful shot and totally worth it. I'm tempted to fire up the grill and play with a little fire myself right now.
You can view the image larger and download it here, as well as see the other 2009 APA winners.
Steve was given the OK to visit the once monthly Bingo session held by the Sisters as a fund raiser. He set up his lighting and a simple seamless background. Then the fun began! About 20 Sisters "stepped in the studio" and struck a pose. Quite the festive group!
Steve tells us that this may continue as an ongoing project as there are many more Sisters who want their picture taken. And as one told him, "Sisters LOVE to have their picture taken!"
Here's Dennis enjoying himself on the job, with the kayakers gliding off in the distance:
These two are neat because you get to see the angle at which he took the image and also the actual image. The colors in these are really stunning and and make me want to go on a kayak trip!
Five vertical miles ( mostly up ) on a wet Northwest day and well worth carrying the extra weight in cameras and lenses!
Curtis has also just redone his whole website! Take a look:
