You may remember us mentioning our food styling job for the Top Chef Just Desserts promo. We just had to share this write up from Brief Magazine.
To address the challenge of working under hot lights with delicate and easily destructible dishes, Appel called in Food Fanatics, a company of food stylists, to create nearly 150 unique desserts that would fi t into the color scheme. Using a combination of real food ingredients and, by Appel’s account, a “bunch of materials from Home Depot,” Food Fanatics whipped up dishes ranging from coconut layer cake to tiramisu, Rice Krispies treats and a plethora of fruit tarts. Although the desserts were delicious to behold, they were basically inedible.
“The ice cream looked like the most appetizing ice cream I’ve ever seen in my life,” Appel said. “But I think it was made out of plaster or something.”
After three long days of prepping, Food Fanatics’ dessert logo materialized beautifully during the shoot on the floor of a soundstage with Appel’s crew successfully capturing it from high above.
Excellent! What a nice way to start the weekend. Makes me want to teach food styling in Atlanta.