The cover photo was shot by Michael Harlan Turkell at Roberta’s restaurant in East Williamsburg/Bushwick (depending on who you ask), one of the best pizza parlors in a town that’s known for its great pies.
The colorful margherita pizza was baked in Roberta’s wood-burning oven, shown below. For more information on Roberta’s, check out their website, robertaspizza.com.
Local talent Michael Harlan Turkell, a once aspiring chef, is now a freelance photographer.
Michael’s work has been selected for 25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers V2, (PowerHouse Books, spring 2008). He has also received a Photo District News Photo Annual Award, and has published his work in an array of online publications and magazines, including his recurring BACK OF THE HOUSE series for Edible Brooklyn and Edible Manhattan magazines, of which he is also the Photo Editor.
He recently photographed the tentatively titled “The New Brooklyn Cookbook”, for William Morrow/Harper Collins, as well as Manhattan’s Clinton Street Baking Co.’s cookbook for Little, Brown and Company, both to be released in the Fall of 2010. He lives in Brooklyn, NY, with a cat that has a beer named after him (Sixpoint Craft Ales’ Masons Black Wheat).
For more of Turkell’s food photography, check out harlanturk.com.
