Frozen Fruit Hacks for GMA by Jackie Alpers

It's getting hot out there folks! Get my super easy summertime frozen fruit recipes  and see my latest food photographs for Refinery29, including the World's Easiest One Ingredient Frozen Watermelon Pops. This recipe is also featured on Good Morning America's...

Jackie Alpers for Lipton Iced Tea

My latest article for Food Network was sponsored by the folks at Lipton Tea, who asked me to come up with some new ways to flavor ice tea. Bold flavors and unique flavor combinations are the new wave of iced teas creations this summer. Here's how to dress up pitchers...

Jackie Alpers On National Public Radio’s “Here & Now”

Learn how to eat a cactus. Kathy Gunst was on NPR's Here & Now on May 19th talking about prickly pear cactus and my recipe for Nopalitos Salad. Listen to the broadcast on the Here & Now website, and get the recipe.

Food Photography by Jackie Alpers for National Geographic Book Project

 Several of my photographs are included in, "Great American Eating Experiences: Local Specialties, Favorite Restaurants, Food Festivals, Diners, Roadside Stands, and More is a guide to favorite local food across the U.S.", a new book from National Geographic.  The...

Natural Awakenings Magazine – Interview With Jackie Alpers

I talked with the fine folks at Natural Awakenings Magazine about food photography, creativity in the kitchen, and healthy eating - Sonoran style. Read all about it here: http://www.naturaltucson.com/TUCS/March-2016/Jackies-Happy-Plate

Desserts multicolores – Recettes et idées pour des desserts colorés et délicieux

My cookbook, Sprinkles!: Recipes and Ideas for Rainbowlicious Desserts has been translated to French! The awesome new French title is, "Desserts multicolores - Recettes et idées pour des desserts colorés et délicieux" (Yeah, I know the photo above is a little too...

Festive Holiday Drink Rims by Jackie Alpers for FoodNetwork.com

Nothing says, “It’s party time” like beverages with fancy looking decorated rims! Dip, dunk and swirl your way to a festive holiday celebration with my 10 ideas for decking out your glassware for the holidays.  The melting hard candy drink rim pictured uses the...

2-Ingredient Comfort Food Recipes by Jackie Alpers for Refinery29

Refinery29 asked me to develop and photograph 10 recipes for comfort foods made with just two ingredients. Pictured above are crispy little appetizers made with only Parmesan cheese and pepperoni. You can see the rest here. My two-ingredient beer and cheddar dip...

Microwave Mug Meals for Refinery29 by Jackie Alpers

My marvelous microwave mug meals in mere minutes. For Refinery29. Pictured above is my photo of a bacon cheeseburger made in a mug in less than 5 minutes! It's a miracle! Easy microwave chicken pot pie you can make in a mug in minutes.

Spooky Halloween Pasta Carbonara with Exotic Mushrooms and Bacon by Jackie Alpers for Taste Cooking

by Jackie Alpers for Taste To help us carbo-load for the long trek through the neighborhood every Halloween, my mother would prepare her standard pre-trick-or-treating meal of Kraft’s boxed spaghetti dinner. We loved it. These days, I’ve upgraded the tradition with a...

Non-alcoholic Sangria Recipe for Taste Cooking

This non-alcoholic version of sangria incorporates grilled fruit for a smoky/spicy summer quencher. The contrast of the grill marks on the colorful fruit make for a stunning visual display, so be sure to serve this in a large glass pitchers or several smaller glass...

Sparkling Sprinkles July 4th Dessert By Jackie Alpers for FoodNetwork.com

Sprinkles elevate an everyday dessert like this simple chocolate mousse into something special. Glittery red cinnamon sugar and vanilla mini marshmallow bits add a kick of flavor, while the subtle color of these pretty blue jimmies comes from natural dyes. So sprinkle...

Pound Cake Revisited by Jackie Alpers for the Food Network

Store bought pound-cake was a weeknight dessert staple when I was growing up, and it’s still got a strong presence in the grocery store’s freezer section. What I like best about it is that it’s sturdy, but not too sweet, making it a good base for creative elaboration....

Meet My Many Mouthwatering Microwave Mug Meals. Mmmmm!

by Jackie Alpers for Refinery29 S'more of my multiple microwave mug meals, manageable in mere minutes! Mug Desserts at Refinery29 Mug Breakfasts at Refinery 29 Funfetti Microwave Mug Cake Recipe at The Kitchn

Improv Snacking – Donut Edition: Jackie Alpers for Refinery29.

Are you standing in the middle of a convent store in the middle of the night, or are you perhaps gazing at the leftover remnants of a box of Krispy Creams from your latest work-related breakfast meeting and wondering to yourself, “What else can I do with these donuts...

Improv & the Art of Snacking: Jackie Alpers for The Kitchn

by Jackie Alpers for The Kitchn "The most creative and inventive snacks are the result of mastering the art of improv" - me quoting me! Read the article I wrote for The Kitchn. The improv snack pictured is a bagel sundae topped with hot fudge, caramel sauce,...

Hot Doggin’ It by Jackie Alpers for Food Network

12 Unexpected Ways To Top Hot Dogs | By Jackie Alpers for Food Network.com Summer party spreads like picnics and pot lucks are an excellent opportunity to put your creative snacking skills to use and experiment with inventing new and exciting hot dog combinations, or...

Michelle Obama’s GimmeFive Challenge for Refinery29 by Jackie Alpers

I am thrilled to be a part of First Lady Michelle Obama's ‪#‎GimmeFive‬ challenge to explore healthy living and lifestyle choices. Refinery29 asked me to create 5 easy avocado recipes with 5 ingredients each. Here they...

8 Pizzas For Easy Spring Entertaining: Jackie Alpers for Food Network

Celebrate Spring with one of my creative pizza ideas, or use them as inspiration for your own unique pie. Read more at the FoodNetwork.com. The pizza above is a chocolate and blueberry breakfast or dessert pizza with lemon mascarpone, sage and edible flowers. Below is...

Party Peeps Are in the House! Jackie Alpers for The Food Network

  There's a Peeps extravaganza going on over at the Food Network just in time for Easter. I came up with 8 party ready ideas featuring everyone's favorite sugar coated marshmallow candy.  The Peeps Bunny King cake is shown above. Below are the...

Jackie Alpers on NPR

Listen to me talk about food photography and my cookbook, Sprinkles! Recipes and Ideas for Rainbowlicious Desserts on NPR! I also make this Lucky Charms Cereal Cake on-air to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Here's the link to the audio and the recipe.

Red Hot Valentine’s by jackie Alpers for Food Network

How to make candy strawberries out of Red Hots, and 10 other treats to make with the cinnamon candy for Valentine's Day, or any time you're in the mood to spice things up a bit. My latest article and food photography for the Food Network.

14 Ways to Use Baby Carrots: Jackie Alpers for Food Network

Super easy, family friendly, roasted baby carrots for the Food Network. One of my 14 Tasty Ways to Use Up a Bag of Baby Carrots. Get the recipe and read the rest here.

Mexican Street Snacks article for Taste Cooking by Jackie Alpers

In my latest article for Random House's Taste Cooking I share recipes for my favorite Mexican street snacks, including TostiNachos and these Walking Tacos made with Tapatio Doritos. They're perfect for the Super Bowl, a day when it is perfectly acceptable to eat all...

Edible Baja Arizona Magazine: January, 2015 Food photography by Jackie Alpers

I have two features in this month's Edible Baja Arizona Magazine. For "The Plate" I selected and photographed four local dishes that should never be taken off of the menu. The Mexican street corn at NOX and the Charcuterie plate at Zona 78 are two of my...

Jackie Alpers for the Food Network: 11 Must Try Dishes in Phoenix, Arizona

Go beyond the cowboy steaks and traditional Mexican fare – here are my 11 must try restaurant dishes that showcase the best food in Phoenix, Arizona, written and photographed for the Food Network. Pictured is the Stetson salad made famous by Cowboy Ciao chef Bernie...

Tucson Lifestyle Magazine Cover & Feature Article About Jackie Alpers

The July, 2014 issue of Tucson Lifestyle Home & Garden Magazine features my photo of a sprinkles dipped ice cream cone. Recipes and photos from my book, Sprinkles!: Recipes and Ideas for Rainbowlicious Desserts are featured inside. I am happy to announce...

Food Photography by Jackie Alpers for P F Changs China Bistro

I'm very excited to share P.F. Chang's new Summer menu with you... because I took all of the photos!  http://www.pfchangs.com/fresh_menu/

Bakepedia & Birthday Cake | Interviews With Jackie Alpers

I talked with the San Jose Mercury News about how to build a better birthday cake. http://www.mercurynews.com/food-wine/ci_24989149/build-better-birthday-cake I also did an interview for Bakepedia, written by Lauren Chattman.  Here’s the link to the whole Q...

The Food Network: Articles and photographs by Jackie Alpers

I'm thrilled to be a contributing author and photographer to the Food Network's website. Heres's a link to my latest articles and my latest photographs of recipes from Food Network Chefs are featured on my Food Photography Pinterest board. Here are a few of my recipe...

Cookbook Trailer for Sprinkles!: Recipes & Ideas for Rainbowlicious Desserts

The official cookbook trailer video is out!

Sprinkles!: Recipes and Ideas for Rainbowlicious Desserts

Sprinkles!: Recipes and Ideas for Rainbowlicious Desserts is a fun and kind of weirdly wonderful, whimsical book, and I believe it’s the first cookbook dedicated entirely to the appreciation and understanding of sprinkles.  I hope you all love it!

Food Photography by Jackie Alpers in FoodPrint 2013

My photo of this woman in a white dress holding a glass of white wine is featured in the international publication Foodprint 2013, annual of gastronomy.

Jackie Alpers food writing and recipes for Broadway & Thresher

I’m  a guest writer/photographer for heart-stoppingly beautiful new magazine about rural culture, Broadway+Thresher.

My Angry Birds: Bad Piggies Best Egg Recipes Cookbook Released!

About a year ago, Rovio Entertainment, inventors of the game Angry Birds, asked me to document the food culture of their famously egg hungry pigs.

Top Photographers interpret Happiness for Reader’s Digest

Jackie Alpers photographs of things that make her happy for Reader’s Digest.

Bar Food Photos for Magazine Cover & Feature by Jackie Alpers

I’ve spent quite a bit of time sitting in bars, in the company of both friends and strangers, eating, drinking, talking (sometimes bit too much), and taking photos. I’ve put that experience to use in my latest photos for the feature, “Raising the Bar”. Here’s the cover, table of contents and opening spread.

2012 International Photography Award for Food

I’ve won an honorable mention in the food photography category of the 2012 International Photography Awards for my photo of fresh tomatillos which was selected from over 10,000 entries from over 100 countries around the world.

CNN Fair Food Project Interview with Jackie Alpers

I had the great pleasure of discussing my Fair Food photo project with CNN Heath for a feature by Georgiann Caruso.

Good Morning America Feature: Decadant Foods From Across the USA!

Good Morning America is featuring my photo of a giant Chimichanga at the El Charro Cafe, (graciously modeled by my husband Jason),  on their website.

Cheeseburger Photo in Bloomberg BusinessWeek

I’m very happy to have my photo of a triple bacon honey bun cheeseburger in Bloomberg BusinessWeek.

Foodprint Directory of Gastronomy

My photograph of an American flag themed frosted cake was selected for inclusion in the European Annual of Gastronomy: Foodprint 1112 .

Fair Food Documented by Jackie Alpers

My favorite fair food has all the qualities of a carnival freak show. It has elements of the unexpected; it’s bigger and weirder than the food I see everyday; and it evokes awe and borderline disgust. The more absurd the better. This is my second year documenting the food at my county fair, an

Fashion Photography by Jackie Alpers

March 2012 issue of Tucson Lifestyle Magazine. My producer Melanie Sutton and I decided to have the model as well as the photographs themselves emulate different sculptures. Here’s a link to the rest of the story.

Burger Fever Magazine Cover and Feature Photography by Jackie Alpers

There are some crazy – big burgers in this town and I was elected to photograph them. I was more than a little surprised by what I found.

BTS Fashion Photos by Jackie Alpers

Fashion Photography for La Encantada and Paula Taylor Productions shoot for Tucson Lifestyle Magazine.

Chef Janos Wilder’s food photographed by Jackie Alpers for Sustainable Magazine

Janos Wilder supplied a recipe for Somen Noodles from his new restaurant Downtown Kitchen + Cocktails, to a beautiful new online green living magazine. I supplied the photo. You can get the recipe and check out the rest of the magazine at Sustainable Online Magazine.

My Hot Dog Obsession: El Guero Canelo

jackie Alpers writes about her hot dog obsession and conducts and photographs a taste test featuring local hot dog options.

My New Food Photography and Recipe Blog: Jackie’s Happy Plate

I’ve started a blog of easy, healthy and hopefully fun recipes that I’ve developed over the years. It’s illustrated with food photos that I took just for this project.

BTS Fashion Photos

More fashion photography from the runway and exclusive behind-the-scene shots  from Saturday’s Rock the Runway Fashion show at La Encantada are available on my website.

Jackie Alpers is one of the 2011 Inside Tucson Business Up and Comers

Thank you Inside Tucson Business for nominating me as a 2011 Up and Comer. and congratulations to all of the other nominees. “Up & Comers is a recognition program designed to highlight the achievements of people in the Tucson region in their 20s, 30s and early 40s who, while still early in their careers, are already making a difference, both in their work and in the community.”

Pizza! Pizza! Pizza! Pizza! Pizza!

Here are some images from  my most recent cover story for the Tucson Guide Magazine. I got to eat a LOT of pizza.  I’m a very lucky girl.

A Food Photographer’s Guide to Working with Restaurants

My Food Photographer’s Guide to Working With Restaurants has been published on the Learn Food Photography blog.

Jackie Alpers Documents The Lovely Ladies of Costco

Jackie Alpers visited Costco on the busiest shopping day of the year and was more taken by the ladies passing out samples than I was with the merchandise.

Jackie Alpers photographs 2010 Holiday Ad Campaign for La Encantada in Black and White

The 2010 holiday ad campaign that I shot for La Encantada, an upscale open air mall in Arizona, illustrates the story of a dapper man-about-town as he picks up last minute holiday gifts for his family… and himself. Our hero, dressed in a Brooks Brother’s suit, stops at Tiffany & Co. where he buys a huge, four carat diamond anniversary ring.

On Location Restaurant Photography by Jackie Alpers

The Menudo at Teresa’s Mosaic cafe a try. It was delicious! Not greasy at all, and they serve the menudo spices on the side so you can make it as hot as you like. And speaking of hot, they garnished the margarita with a jalapeno in addition to the usual salt and lime. It was the perfect combination of salty, sweet and spicy.

Sandwiches: Magazine Cover by Jackie Alpers

I visited an authentic South Philadelphia style cheesesteak shop, a combo Jewish/Italian deli, and a place whose name was inspired by The Lord of the Rings (Baggin’s). The sandwiches were are absurdly huge and extremely yummy, and I got to go behind the scenes and see how they were all made. You can read the whole article here: http://tinyurl.com/262zphx

Summer Fun: Tucson Tourism Ad Campaign & PDN Feature Article

Jackie Alpers’s photographs of kids having a Summer Fun adventure for a Visit Tucson advertising campaign is featured in Photo District News.

Jackie Alpers Nominated for Photography Master’s Cup

I was nominated for a Photography Master’s Cup award in the Food Photography category.

The Photography Master Cup is, “a global online awards show recognizing excellence in color photography. This celebrated event shines a spotlight on the finest professional and non-professional photographers and is presented by International Color Awards.”

Jackie Alpers Runner Up in Saveur Magazine Cover Contest

I’m thrilled to have been selected a runner up in Saveur Magazine’s cover contest.  Five images were selected from over 900 entries.

Food photography by Jackie Alpers on the cover of Tucson Guide Magazine

I’ve been shooting for the Tucson Guide for a while now,  but the new March issue marks my first cover. I love shooting for the Tucson Guide because it’s a way that I can help promote the restaurants in my community. It also gives me the opportunity to experience my own town like a tourist would – t

Thanks to Wonderful Machine for featuring me in their Spotlight section…

Food photography by Jackie Alpers spotlight feature at Wonderful Machine.

Jackie Alpers Photographs Calorie Counter Cookbook

The Calorie Counter Cookbook by Chantal Martineau, food styling and photography by Jackie Alpers