foodie alert: hot tomato

aaron sanchez was at the union square greenmarket today, with a small film crew. i like him well enough–thought he was charming on melting pot, and can recall good meals at paladar–but never considered myself starstruck enough to stop and snap his photo.

i did it this morning.

it felt a little weird, to be honest, though i do like the face he’s making.

but the best part of this whole encounter, and my “reporting” of it to my friends via twitter and facebook, is that i found out that someone i was lucky to work with years ago, rafael– the maestro of showdown pictures, had just completed primary production on the very show that mr. sanchez was in the park shooting b-roll for.

it’s a new show on the spanish language network, utilisima, called “aaron loves new york.”

you can read a little more about it here but look out for it in the fall…(we can all brush up on our espanol… si?)

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photo@ anita aguilar