SAVEUR contributing photographer Penny De Los Santos traveled to California's Central Valley along with contributing editor Georgia Freedman to photograph Rancho San Julián for Georgia's article, California Eternal for our December 2012 issue. With the photographs in this gallery, Penny describes her process for capturing the life and food of the Poett family on the ranch. While on assignment, Penny's philosophy is to "try to let people live their lives, and I make sure I'm there to capture it." For more on shooting this story, read Penny's behind the scenes account »
This was dinner the day of the big cattle herding. I was exhausted from running all day, I smelled horrible from rubbing up against all those cows, but Elizabeth and her husband declared, "We're making dinner." So I switched gears again into food-shooting mode. It's about quieter moments, not as fast-moving as horses running along the fields, but because Georgia's story is about the food of this place, these are the images that really need to tell the story. What you cook and how you cook it says a lot about where you are; making these burgers in a skillet set on a grill was so cowboy, so entirely specific to this place. When you photograph food, that's what you're looking for: a moment of cooking or eating that brings you into a different culture, whether it's on the other side of the world, or just on the other side of the country you live in.
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