In Edible Selby, photographer Todd Selby turns his lens toward the people, places, and processes that shape contemporary food culture. Traveling across cities, kitchens, gardens, homes, and restaurants, Selby profiles more than forty chefs, bakers, farmers, artisans, and makers who dedicate their lives to growing, cooking, and serving food.
Shot in Selby's distinctive documentary style, the photographs offer intimate, behind‑the‑scenes views of culinary spaces around the world—from professional restaurant kitchens to home workspaces and outdoor gardens.
Each profile is accompanied by hand‑drawn watercolor illustrations, a handwritten questionnaire, and a personal recipe, creating a visual and narrative record of how these individuals think about food, craft, and creativity.
Moving between global destinations and everyday rituals—making bread, curing olives, foraging wild herbs, or sharing a simple meal—Edible Selby captures food not as product, but as lived experience. Part photography book, part culinary portrait collection, and part creative journal, the book celebrates the makers and environments that sustain real food culture.
Todd Selby has earned praise from masters including Alice Waters and Thomas Keller. As Food & Wine magazine put it: "Books On My Gifts List…Photographer Todd Selby's scrapbook reportage on passionate cooks and famous chefs around the world. Messy, magnificent, inspiring."
