Food Styling

Flip through any magazine, or spend a few minutes watching television, and you will see scores of advertisements for restaurants and prepared food products. Colorful and artistically arranged dishes in photos and on television shows and in movies are the work of food stylists.

Experienced garde manger chefs often make the transition into food styling. Artistic flair, combined with food-production skills and organizational abilities, enables them to set up food shots for both still photography and film. Freelance food stylists work when they choose and sometimes get to travel to shoots in faraway places. Stylists working for magazines and food production corporations earn job security and benefits.