Product Description
by Delores Custer (Author)
Food Styling is the first serious book on the subject of food styling for specific media: editorial, advertorial, public relations, marketing, advertising, packaging, and television and film production. It focuses on the development of skills and the techniques and equipment required to help chefs improve presentations and simply better market a product.
Front Jacket
FOOD STYLING
BEHIND EVERY mouthwatering image of food is a dedicated food stylist whose job it is to consider, plan, and perfect every detail from the curve of an apple stem to the fan of a shrimp tail.
In Food Styling, master stylist Delores Custer presents the definitive reference in the field--complete with detailed information on essential tools and useful equipment, step-by-step guidance on achieving the perfect shot, and a wealth of tried-and-true techniques for everything from voluminous frostings to mile-high sandwiches. Based on her thirty years of experience styling for advertising, magazines, books, television, and film, Custer shares her expert guidance on how to achieve stunning visual perfection for all media.
Back Jacket
FOOD STYLING BEHIND EVERY mouthwatering image of food is a dedicated food stylist whose job it is to consider, plan, and perfect every detail from the curve of an apple stem to the fan of a shrimp tail.
In Food Styling, master stylist Delores Custer presents the definitive reference in the field--complete with detailed information on essential tools and useful equipment, step-by-step guidance on achieving the perfect shot, and a wealth of tried-and-true techniques for everything from voluminous frostings to mile-high sandwiches. Based on her thirty years of experience styling for advertising, magazines, books, television, and film, Custer shares her expert guidance on how to achieve stunning visual perfection for all media.
Author Biography
DELORES CUSTER has been a freelance food stylist and culinary educator since 1978. Today she styles for magazines and cookbook publishers, and in print advertising, public relations, television, and feature films. She has taught courses in Professional Food Styling, Recipe Writing, and Food Demonstration Techniques for Television at New York University, The Culinary Institute of America, The Institute of Culinary Education, and culinary schools around the world. Her food clients include Kraft Foods, General Mills, Unilever, Campbell Soup Company, ConAgra, Nestlé, Häagen-Dazs(R), Red Lobster, Subway, Cuisinart, Bacardi, and Budweiser. Her website is delorescuster.com.
