03/17/2026
If you’ve visited our bakeries over the past few months, you may have noticed the silkie chicken portrait on our shopping bags.
The image comes from photographer Poultry Suite. Jean is an American photographer whose five-decade career spans fashion, film, and fine art. Her photographs have appeared in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar Italia, Rolling Stone, and in collaborations with director Robert Altman.
Over time, her work has grown more experimental, increasingly connected to material and process. In the mid-90s, she began exploring alternative techniques, creating hand-applied silver gelatin prints on handmade rice and mulberry papers.
Her Poultry Suite, from which this portrait is drawn, treats each bird with the same attention she once gave to human subjects: minimal backgrounds, intentional light, and a focus on presence and individuality.
As Jean says, “I was always deeply moved by a combination of beauty and fragility in landscape photography, fashion, and even chickens!”
That idea resonates with us at Carissa’s. We try to find beauty in the everyday: in nature, in ingredients, and in small details. It’s where much of our inspiration comes from.
Jean asked for one thing in return for this collaboration: that we support an organization meaningful to her.
In her honor, Carissa’s has donated to World Central Kitchen the nonprofit founded by that provides freshly prepared meals to communities affected by natural disasters, conflict, and humanitarian crises around the world.
Collaborations like this allow us to support work that matters beyond our bakeries.
Available for a limited time at all Carissa’s locations with select purchases.
