Soba noodles! I love them. Quick cooking and good tasting, they come in neat little bundles that are perfect for tossing into stir fries.

Soba noodles share a similar awkward food photo problem to the veggie burger mix we saw last week: they are a grayish brown color. But even more alarming, the straightness of the bundle while sitting on the counter presents a rather stark angle with the grout lines on your tiled kitchen counter. This isn’t the Van der Rohe Farnsworth House and the year is not 1950. We need some curves, some movement to our food.

This photo needs help!

Bring in that macro setting on your camera and go in for the noodle end close up! Stunning! Look at that curve! It says, “I defy the grid. I will not be bound by tile grout!”. The noodle ends are messy and reflect our contemporary life.