{"id":4407,"date":"2015-03-16T19:55:17","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T23:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/?p=4407"},"modified":"2024-05-02T15:18:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T19:18:24","slug":"mariners-menu-behind-the-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/currents\/2015\/03\/mariners-menu-behind-the-scenes\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariner’s Menu: Behind the Scenes"},"content":{"rendered":"

By E-CHING LEE<\/h3>\n

Posted March 16, 2015<\/em><\/p>\n

Warning: This post may make you hungry.<\/p>\n

\"Plated

A lot more goes into the Mariner’s Menu<\/em> photo shoot than meets the eye \u2014 or the nose.<\/p><\/div>\n

In mid February, I stopped by North Carolina Sea Grant’s Morehead City office on my way to SciREN<\/a>. While working in a borrowed office, the smell of frying pulled me into the Seafood Lab.<\/p>\n

I found Vanda Lewis, Mariner’s Menu<\/em><\/a> blogger and photographer, hard at work cooking French-fried shrimp for this<\/a> blog post. She does this all the time and has the process down.<\/p>\n

First she has to actually cook the recipe she wants to photograph. Here, she is using shrimp she and her husband froze last summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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\"Peeled

Vanda dips the peeled shrimp in the egg batter.<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n

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\"Shrimp

Then she breads them in a flour and seasoning mixture.<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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\"Fried

Shrimp are fried in hot oil. When they’re golden brown, she drains them on paper towels.<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

This is what the whole operation looks like.<\/p>\n

Then she arranges the food for the photo \u2014 even from behind the camera \u2014 to get that perfect image with optimal lighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\"Woman

Vanda places the shrimp around the bowl of cocktail sauce.<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n

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\"Shrimp

The plating continues between shots.<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

She takes a series of photos and picks the best for the Mariner’s Menu <\/em>blog post.<\/p>\n

The final results \u2014 and the recipe \u2014 are here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For more ideas on how to prepare local North Carolina seafood, check out Mariner\u2019s Menu<\/em><\/a>, featuring many recipes from Joyce Taylor\u2019s resource book Mariner\u2019s Menu: 30 Years of Fresh Seafood Ideas<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

And the hardest part of all? Getting rid of the evidence. You can’t waste that fried shrimp.<\/p>\n

Shrimp season, come soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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