Michael Harlan Turkell

Michael Harlan Turkell, a once aspiring chef, now photographer, for years, has captured the inner workings of kitchens for his award-winning “BACK OF THE HOUSE” project, which documented the lives of chefs in their restaurant world. As former photo editor of Edible Brooklyn and Edible Manhattan, his recurring BACK OF THE HOUSE series appeared in the magazines from 2006 – 2011, was nominated for a James Beard Foundation Award in Visual Storytelling. He's also been included in 25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers V2, (PowerHouse Books), and received a Photo District News Photo Annual Award. Turkell has photographed over a dozen cookbooks, some of which include, "The New Brooklyn Cookbook", "Clinton Street Baking Company", Joanne Chang's "Flour Too", Jeremy Sewall's "The New England Kitchen", Marco Canora’s “A Good Food Day” and “Brodo”, Sara and Nancy Harmon Jenkins "The Four Seasons of Pasta", Lukas Volger's "Bowl", and Chris Cosentino’s "Offal Good", which he also co-authored. He also co-authored Adam Dulye's "The Beer Pantry". Turkell recently wrote and photographed first cookbook, “ACID TRIP: Travels in the World of Vinegar”, which won the 2018 IACP cookbook award for Culinary Travel. He's also a podcast host, for shows such as THE FOOD SEEN on Heritage Radio Network, which for the past 9 years, Turkell has brought together guests working at the intersections of food, art & design, and twice been a finalist for a Stitcher Award (2012, 2013). He hosts Modernist BreadCrumbs as well, the companion podcast to Modernist Cuisine's "Modernist Bread" books, and Season 3 of Food52's Burnt Toast, which was nominated for an iHeartRadio Podcast Award for best food podcast. He lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his wine-writing wife, and a cat, better known as #masontoday on Instagram.