(Un)appetizing

I spent one whole minute considering jumping on the gluten free bandwagon some eight months ago. A Google search took me to Eating Well Magazine, a publication familiar to me during my stint as a graphic designer for a health and nutrition PR firm.

This magazine has always been hit or miss for me, mostly miss. While I love their mission statement of providing inspiration and information about healthy eating, their execution is often flawed.

I have nothing but praise for the gluten free diet plan Eating Well created; perfect for dieting novices like me who just want our stomachs fed with our brains left out of it. But the images used for some of the recipes are downright foul.

Let me give you a tasty sampler. 

This is Steak & Boursin-Wrapped Bells. Putting aside that I have kitchen aversion and don't even know what "boursin" is, these look like something my niece would make for the third-grade Thanksgiving reenactment. Where was the food stylist on this one?

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I can see my reflection in the shiny meat and carrots of this Bistro Beef Tenderloin.

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Here we have Singapore Chile Crab with Spinach. I got food poisoning just from looking at this picture. Also, how about that lighting, eh?

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Sweet Potato-Turkey Hash with...what is that? Jam? Jelly? I have a policy of avoiding foods with the word "hash" in the title.

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When I has eight, I went to a haunted house where my neighbor was laid up on the kitchen table, pretending to be Frankenstein. We had to touch all of Frankenstein's body parts: his hair was spaghetti, his eyes were grapes, and I think this Chicken with Green Olives & Prunes was used for his guts.

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These Sliced Tomatoes with Pesto Drizzle were taken with an iPhone camera and nobody will convince me otherwise.

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So...who's ready for lunch?!?!