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  Lately I’ve been on quite a streak of cooking homely-looking dishes.  Butternut-squash and mango curry, chickpea and artichoke masala, sweet potato and green bean chowder—all lip-smackingly delicious but difficult to photograph in an appetizing way, even with the help of the food styling book I’ve had my nose in for weeks now. My difficulties lead me to philosophize about the meaning of beauty in food, about the absurd lengths we sometimes go to for the sake of that beauty (the instruments in the toolbox of a food stylist look like a cross between those of a surgeon and those … Continue reading →