I’m Danielle Press, a local photographer. In the last year, I’ve felt a calling to help the people of our community who are suffering through this pandemic, namely restaurant and bar owners and workers. Our community needs you, and I want to help lift you up.
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I’m a person of limited funds, but I have some talent for photography and design, and if I’m going to be able to help anyone, it will be through art. This past fall, in two months, I conceived a dog calendar project, designed and shot it, sold them, and donated the entire proceeds to the SPCA of Anne Arundel County. I was able to give them $1500. I’m hoping to be able to do the same on an even bigger scale with this project.
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The goal is to design and shoot a cookbook of local-to-Annapolis restaurants’ recipes, sell the books (I’m thinking both online and print) and donate the proceeds to a fund that was set up for restaurant owners and workers. It looks like Feed Anne Arundel is going to be the right place to donate!
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What I’d need from you is a recipe. Something you sell at your restaurant that people could make at home – but not something that would convince them that they don’t need to go to you anymore. It’s a fine line, but I bet that there’s a dish or a side or a dessert or a drink that you could contribute. I’d love it if you’d make it and plate it for me to photograph, but if that can’t be done, I’m a confident enough cook that I think I could handle it. I’d also love a story to go with it – either about your place of business or about the dish itself.
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If you’d like to contribute, I’d be honored to share your recipe in the book. This is for you because I don’t want to see you go down with this pandemic. I moved to the area three and a half years ago after my life blew up, and love what this town has meant for me. To be resurrected here with a second chapter was exactly what I needed, and what we all need is for Annapolis and the surrounding areas to retain our tasty, crabby, Old Bay-y, small platey, orange crushy, designer taco-y, fresh-fishy restaurants, and to try to keep the people who work in them from losing everything.
Thank you,
Danielle W. Press
518-618-8402
