I’m James, and I’m the photographer and general techie behind the Fashionable Foodie.  My duties (tee hee, I said dooty) include mangling WordPress, screwing up PHP code and maintaining no real understanding of CSS.  I also take pictures of the food, misspell words and occasionally contribute a recipe or two.  I went to school for filmmaking and I now work for a gigantic government contracting company providing specialized support to an agency of the Treasury Department in Washington DC.  I live in northern Virginia with my wife Gretchen and our two dogs, Nugget and Sylar. 

I keep a photography blog over at ishotalot.com and you can check out all the articles I’ve written for the site here.

Favorite food to cook:

Chili.  There’s something about the long and methodical method of cooking chili that is comforting and soothing.  I always forget how much time it requires, but I also always end up loving the resulting pot of spicy, meaty goodness.  Cut open a snack bag of Frito’s, spoon in some chili and top with fresh onions and some cheese and you’re riding a rocket to tummy heaven.

Favorite item of clothing:

If money were no object, my wardrobe would look very different then it does today.  I love Kenneth Cole’s menswear and shoes, I feel most comfortable in a great pair of jeans and more then anything, I love to have a huge variety of shoes.  I guess my all-time favorite piece of clothing would probably be an ancient pair of Robucks Jeans I have (yes, that’s the Sears store brand).  They’ve been patched and repatched, but the cut and color are really unlike anything else I’ve ever found.

Guilty pleasure:

Outback Steakhouse cheesefries, Geno’s wiz wit, and Grimaldi’s Pizza.  I certainly love an elegantly composed plate of food, but my inner pig always wants something covered in a deep glaze of cheese.   Outback’s cheesefries take the cake for the most unhealthy and deliciously disgusting thing you can eat, Geno’s wiz wit is the best cheesesteak I’ve ever had and Grimaldi’s Pizzeria at the bottom of the Brooklyn Bridge is the best pizza in the world.

Soundtrack to your life:

I’ve got AA Bondy’s American Hearts and The National’s Boxer in heavy rotation right now.  I’ve also been known to rock out to Sheer Terror or Damnation AD one minute and chill out with some John Prine or Randy Newman the next.