THE FOOD STYLISTS’ Art
Mar 01, 2022
4 minutes
by Doug Stewart
Has a delectable ice-cream sundae in a magazine ad ever made your mouth water? Well, your taste buds might be in for a surprise if you could take a bite. Advertising professionals know that a scoop of real ice cream melts into a goopy mess under the hot lights of a photo studio. That’s why the ice cream you admired could actually have been cold mashed potatoes and food coloring.
Not Ready for Its Close-Up
But wait—isn’t the best way to get a delicious-looking photograph of food to prepare something delicious and take a picture of it? Not necessarily, say the members of a bizarre and highly competitive profession known as food styling. These folks are
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