About Us

Hello & Chaò, we’re Todd and Diane. Welcome to our world of food, behind the kitchen, behind the scenes and behind the lens.

We’re fools for good food, great conversation, green gardening and traveling. For us, our lives have always been about love, family, friends, sharing, exploring & food. These four essentials of survival brought us together & eventually became the basic ingredients to molding our different backgrounds and personalities into one balanced dish.

We cook, consume and create from childhood comforts that our forefathers passed on through our heritage. But, we are not bound by it. Open to feeding both inside and outside our cultural comfort zones, we believe food holds few boundaries; so long as we understand and give respect/recognition to its origins. After many frustrations, failures and success, we continue to evolve at the stove and in our personal lives.

This site is our outlet to share our essentials of love, food, travel , adventure, sharing…& a bit of steam.

Our Photography & Work:

We’re in Los Angeles and are full-time photographers, film-makers, freelance journalists and cooking instructors.

Visit our portfolio of photography, film and advertising promo work : www.TdPhotographers.com

By day we stay busy in our photo/multimedia studio, freelance on assignment and contribute to Edible Los Angeles Magazine, Ngoui Viet 2 Daily News, LA Weekly – Squid Ink and Good Bite. By night we share it all with you  here, on our food, garden, travel and photography blog.  Last but not least, our lives are complete because of our two crazy, but loving dogs, Dante and Sierra.

Workshops and Speaking Events:

One of the best parts about what we do in our professional lives is being able to share our experience and knowledge with others. Topics we’ve given presentations on at various events and panels include photography, multimedia, blogging, online publishing and creative writing.

  • USC Creative Careers: University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA : Online publishing, blogging and integrating social media to achieving your online career
  • USC Creative Careers: Achieving Success & Values in your career
  • Portrait & Lifestyle Photography, Los Angeles, CA - Capturing light, emotion & people , private workshops in our Los Angeles and Orange County studios.
  • BlogHer Food Conference 2009, San Francisco, CA - Principles of Photography
  • BlogHer Food Conference 2010, San Francisco, CA – Food Photography for Food Bloggers
  • Club Med, Ixtapa Mexico, Food Blogger Camp: Multimedia Presentation- integrating video, podcasts and other forms of new multimedia to building your best blog
  • Food Blog Forum, Los Angeles & Atlanta - Food Photography, Workflow and Equipment
  • Food & Lifestyle Photography , Los Angeles, CA - photographing food content indoors, outdoors, in your home and on location in restaurants. Private workshops on location at various Los Angeles locations.
  • The Art of Food and Light Workshop, Boulder, CO- Natural and artificial light workflow, food styling and hands-on workshop

Press, Interviews & other recipe mentions:

We love hearing from all of you! - But with the flood of emails that we get on a daily basis, we are unable to answer each and every inquiry.  That’s great to send us a quick line and “hello!” but if you’re expecting an answer, please know we try to best to respond and it won’t be right away.

  • If it’s a recipe, technique or ingredient related question, please ask it on the comment section of the post so that everyone can benefit from the information. We like to share all recipe related questions to all our readers.

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Email: Contact us at  “td (@) whiteonricecouple (dot) com”

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