PETER ELLENBY

Peter Ellenby is a music photographer living in Portland, OR.

What was the food highlight of your year?

This year's Thanksgiving was the food highlight of the year for me. I love to cook the Turkey and this year we were going to do an eat all day buffet kind of thing so I needed to make a lot of bird. I brined two birds and roasted one in the oven. The second I did something I'd been wanting to do forever and cooked it with indirect heat from charcoal on the grill, also adding alder wood chips soaked in beer for smoke and extra flavor. Both of them were excellent and the one cooked outside was the crowd favorite. The brine recipe I used is my take on one from Chez Panisse that was published in the SF Chronicle years ago. I ad lib a lot when I cook but like a solid foundation. I also put pepper bacon on the each of the birds as they cooked. This adds amazing flavor and makes the drippings delicious. Plus you get to eat the bacon when it's done. Keep adding more and you get more bacon for the stuffing etc.

What was the music highlight of your year?

Music highlight of the year was seeing We Were Promised Jetpacks TWICE this year in Portland. Once at the Doug Fir and once at the Wonder ballroom. Such a great treat to have a band all the way from Scotland come and play for us twice in one year. They really play an amazing show and I was kind of going nuts at the Wonder show. Sorry if I pogo'd on your toes - Next time pogo with me, Portland!

Was there a moment when food and music came together in a memorable way?

I curated and took part in a group music photography show called Shutter Rock 2014 at the Bunk Bar Wonder. It was really great to have amazing photos on the wall to look at while enjoying amazing Bunk sandwiches and Icebergs.

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PETER ELLENBY

Peter Ellenby’s 20 years of San Francisco indie rock photography is the subject of the book, Every Day Is Saturday.

What was the food highlight of your year?

Top food highlight of the year was moving to Portland Oregon and being able to buy foie gras in restaurants again since it had been banned in California. The foie gras profiteroles at Le Pigeon are insane as is the mousse on the charcuterie board at Little Bird.

What was the music highlight of your year?

Music highlight of the year was the National and Frightened Rabbit show at the Edgefield Winery.  A bunch of friends ponied up for a limo to get out there and the show was just amazing. Two bands at the absolute top of their game. It was also a torrential downpour that night and we all got soaked, but there was something magical about being pounded by rain and hearing amazing music. This was especially true during the Frightened Rabbit set. Very emotional music from the damp climes of Scotland.

Was there a moment when food and music came together in a memorable way?

Music and food best collided when our friend Brian Spangler who owns Apizza Scholls in Portland asked my wife Jeanné Ellenby for a copy of one of her Flaming Lips photos – Wayne in is his hamster ball being held up by the crowd at the Treasure Island Music Festival.  When we dropped off print at the restaurant for him he went into the back and brought out a pizza peel that Wayne had drawn some art on during a pizza feed. Their manager lives nearby so they visit the restaurant a lot, as should everybody. The best pizza I have ever had. It was a pretty cool combo of Lips art sitting side by side, all made possible by pizza, music and friendships.

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PETER ELLENBY

Peter Ellenby’s twenty years of photographing bands like The Flaming Lips, Death Cab For Cutie, Modest Mouse, and Bright Eyes in small clubs is the subject of the book, Every Day Is Saturday.

What was the food highlight of your year?

Eating the bone marrow at RN74.

What was the music highlight of your year?

Bob Mould playing Copper blue at Bottom of the Hill during Noise Pop.

Was there a moment when food and music came together in a memorable way?

Noisette was amazing. Watching Ian Marks from the Beast and the Hare butcher half a pig was pretty cool. Eating what he did with the meat was better.

When I was shooting Bob Mould and his band for their Silver Age promos we walked past Olivier’s Butchery in Dogpatch. Bob says “Oh. Is this a butcher?” I confirmed that it was indeed and he proceeded to go inside and buy three or four amazing looking steaks. I’m sitting there thinking to myself “Oh my god, I’m watching Bob Mould buy steaks!”