While How To Make Your Food Famous offers a lot of information on the technical aspects of food photography and social media strategy, it ultimately falls short in delivering anything particularly new or groundbreaking for those already familiar with the space.

The book covers a broad range of topics, from gear and styling tips to lighting and video creation, with a focus on how to stand out on Instagram and TikTok. The compilation of advice from over 40 food influencers and photographers is a nice touch, but the content ends up feeling more like a surface-level overview than a deep dive into the practicalities of becoming a successful food content creator.

For someone just starting out in food photography, this might be a helpful and easy-to-read primer. The format is digestible, with short essays and quick tips, which is convenient in today’s fast-paced world. However, if you're looking for more substantive guidance or insider secrets, this book doesn't quite deliver. A lot of the advice feels like common knowledge for anyone with a passing interest in food photography or social media growth, making it hard to justify as an essential read.

In terms of style, the photographs included are interesting and showcase how styling and props can elevate a dish, but again, they don’t provide much more than what’s already readily available online. The book may offer some valuable tips for beginners, but for anyone with prior knowledge of food photography or social media, it comes off as rather basic and lacking depth.

In the end, How To Make Your Food Famous is an okay guide for those at the very beginning of their journey, but it doesn't go beyond the basics or offer much that isn't already available elsewhere on the internet. If you're hoping to become the next big foodfluencer, you might want to look elsewhere for more in-depth insights.

If you've ever been interested in moving into the social media food space or just taking better pictures of your food that you post, read this book. The tips are invaluable and come from a variety of famous accounts. It's definitely a masterclass and it's plain interesting.

Anyone who has ever seen blogs or other social media food sites knows that some are good and some are absolutely awful. Anyone contemplating posting food articles needs to do some research and learn some fundamentals before trying to get on the bandwagon. How To Make Your Food Famous: A Masterclass in Sharing Your Food Online, by food photographer, stylist, food content creator and best-selling author, Kimberly Espinel is one of the best books out there for beginners, as well as those already online who want to make their site even better.

While the book isn’t too long, and is well-organized, it contains valuable information that will make anyone who posts to social media an expert on the subject. There are actually dozens of short articles on every necessary subject to elevate a site from mundane to one that will be visited over and over. Even veteran bloggers can learn a lot from this book.

The author’s photography hints are timely and useful. Although I have posted photos on my site, her hints have made them much nicer and they are much more attractive. Other articles that are very helpful include telling stories, being persistent, styling tips, and finding your own style to name a few.

All told, this book is excellent and should be on the shelf of anyone who posts food articles online. This one is highly recommended.

Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.

The perfect book for anyone looking to improve their social media skills as a food blogger/influencer. This provides many tips and tricks from lighting, choosing the right garnish, and how to pick your niche. A great asset to have on your shelf.

I really enjoyed this book of tips and tricks as well as interviews with food influencers. As someone who is an avid photographer, but focuses on landscapes, I feel like I learned a bit about food photography as well. Great pictures made it a pleasure to read as well!

Thank you Netgalley and Quarto Publishing Group – White Lion for the ARC!

How To Make Your Food Famous by London food photographer Kimberly Espinel offers tips and tricks of the trade for those who know that breakfast isn't truly eaten until it is Instagrammed. How To Make Your Food Famous is a good entry point for newcomers to the world of food photography and social media content creation. Espinal, who hosts a vegan food photography and styling blog, offers practical and actionable advice for aspiring food bloggers and social media enthusiasts who want to up their game when it comes to their photography.

The book offers essays by Espinel and her cohorts on every angle, including the gear needed (or really, what you don't need), styling tips, lighting, trends, phone videos, and much more. I found many of the photographs particularly interesting because they illuminated how styling and props could elevate a snapshot into a culinary creation. How To Make Your Food Famous has an easy-to-read format: short and snappy, if you'll forgive the pun --perfect for our world of constant distractions.

The essays are by a broad range of photographers and food influencers, which helps to ensure the advice is varied and accessible. It makes for a strong compilation of advice food content creators of all ages looking to enhance their presence on platforms such as Instagram and Tiktok. Espinel's book doesn't just focus on the technical aspects of photography. It also considers social media strategy, offering insights on how to grow a following with a view towards potentially monetizing one's food content.

How To Make Your Food Famous is a solid primer for those at the beginning of their food photography journey by providing an accessible and engaging introduction to sharing food online.

_How To Make Your Food Famous_ is a solid primer for those at the beginning of their food photography journey by providing an accessible and engaging introduction to sharing food online.

This is such a great book idea. The tips from different perspectives and all the advice will really help up your food game to the next level.
I have been working with the idea of doing videos for youtube and these ideas are so helpful.

Lots of tips from successful social media influencers/ bloggers about how to make your food famous or how to take good pictures of your food, share in on social media and be successful. Unfortunately I didn’t finish reading it before it expired but I like the layout and how the information was organized. I received a free digital copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review

How to Make Your Food Famous by Kimberly Espinel

I read this practical masterclass to learn how to be a food influencer. It coached me to take better photography, the need to up my game with social media and learn everything I can to create great videos and engage with the TikTok community. And lots more secrets I can’t divulge, or you might not buy the book!! Lovely photographs and tips on how to get the best out of your mobile phone camera. Obviously, I need to prepare my gorgeous eats first and get the plating and lighting right! Camera. Action.

Hardback due to be Published: 22/08/2024 at £14.99 by Quarto Publishing.

This is my own honest review thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for a free digital copy

This is a very practical book, with a lot of direct tips and tricks to make you food photos shine brighter on social media. A very nice gift for the aspiring food influencers in your friend circles!

This guide comprises useful tips from food influencers on how to best photograph and post your food on social media. From lighting tips to when and how to focus on your food, this is a lovely guide.

Spending my hospital time wisely by catching up on some reading. As I’ve been navigating my life with food and health I’ve enjoyed posting about food and would like to do so more regularly. I was so excited when NetGalley added “How to Make Your Food Famous” by Kimberly Espinel! This book combines the best of a nuts and bolts how-to book with that much needed chat with a friend who knows all about a topic you are desperate to learn about, in this case running a food-related social account. The book includes advice, lessons learned, gorgeous food photography, and origin stories from dozens of creators who represent the breadth of food content creators. Technical advice ranging from photography to content creation schedules to choosing garnishes are sprinkled throughout. As a new creator looking to level up my work, this book came at the perfect time! I highly recommend this for anyone who currently posts content, or anyone who wants to, as a guide and friend along the way.

Great choice of colors for the book cover. The lay out is easy on the eyes and easy to read as well.

Good lighting, a creative eye, an awareness of the changes in your chosen market and as always, the ability to collaborate. It’s more easily said than done, though. This may be a guide on how to make your food content standout but I believe most of these tips are useful for social media content creation in general.

Well put together how to - with great photos and tips for content creators with varying degrees of expertise.

I picked this book up not because I was interested in becoming a food influencer but because I was interested in finding out more about better food photography. Unfortunately, this book didn't cover much about that. Most of the book was interviews with food influencers about how they grew their social media presence.

This book pointed out to me how not into social media I am. I had never heard of any of the people in this book. LOL

There was a lot of nice photography in the book and inspiring stories but I don't know how valuable the advice here really is. It was mostly about making sure you pick a niche and post consistently. Everyone knows that. It seemed more like a high level overview than really getting into details.

This is an excellent book for people who want to be successful as food content creators. It features double page spreads from a wide variety of successful food influencers on TikTok, instagram and YouTube with advice and examples of their posts. There is also some advice from the author on things like photography and what types of foods are the most popular.

I read a temporary digital copy of this book for review.

The book is nicely formatted and offers a lot a tips but they are so basic I'm not sure who would truly benefit from this book. I can see it selling during graduation time or the holidays to people looking for a gift for the niece/nephew that they don't know too well but I feel that anyone that is even slightly serious about the subject will have out grown the info before they are even finished the book.

The insights from other food influencers are fun to read but again so short that they mainly offer insperation to read more elsewhere.

As a food blogger this book was truly inspirational and gave me a lot of food for thought on how I can improve my interactions and content! I love how it's relatable advice from actual content creators on how they grew, their takes and best tips. The book flows well and has a great amount of ideas in it to try but in a digestible manner. I can't wait to put some of this into practice!

I'm ALWAYS in the kitchen cooking up something new for my husband and I, and YOU KNOW the camera HAS TO EAT FIRST. That being said, I am so thankful to the publisher, Netgalley, and Kimberly Espinel for granting me advanced access to this cookbook before it hits shelves on August 20, 2024.

Could not get the file to open. Based on the description and other reviews, am giving this a 4-Star. Would love to have read it fully because this is a topic so many are interested in.