Thanks to our extremely talented staff of photographers, Sauce art director Meera Nagarajan thumbs through dozens of gorgeous photographs each month to pick the best – and most mouthwatering – images of the food and drinks we feature in every issue. The hardest part is picking just one for our cover. Each month, we’ll give you a behind-the-scenes look into the making of the cover here. Now onto how Meera chose this month’s cover: I asked Carmen Troesser, an incredibly talented local photographer, to shoot our August cover. One of our options for a cover photo was the Gulf Shrimp Po’ boy at Molly’s in Soulard. Once the sandwich was shot, we were told to go ahead and eat it, otherwise that poor po’ boy was going in the trash. So, Carmen and I split it. But splitting it wasn’t enough for me. I went to the bar and ordered another sandwich and devoured it, which had me drowsy the rest of the day, but was well worth it. That same night I was going on and on about this sandwich to friends … and it was dinnertime … and yes, we went … and I ate the sandwich, again. Three times in one day? I’d say that’s pretty cover-worthy.
Once all the photos were in, I felt the Po’ boy should be our cover sandwich; it was just a matter of choosing the best photograph. There were some that were shot closer-up, some that were from the side, but we all felt that our cover photo was the one that best represented the story. It was the one that clearly said, “sandwich.”
This article appears in Aug 1-31, 2010.
