I may have just broken one of the cardinal rules. But I'll tell you something, the above picture was not taken in some fuzzy-artistic frenzy. It is legitimately blurry and I don't have any idea why.
I tried. I am telling you, I had lighting this time. I adjusted angles and stationed a lamp above the food and even repositioned some things on the plate. This was a step for me, not an enormous one but a step. But I have just realized why having a nice camera is important in food photography. Snapping pics on your iPhone may have been made solely for those drunken fb photos you regret, and not fine food photography. Which brings me to my next point...
