Essential Techniques for Food Styling
When you flip through the pages of a food magazine and find your mouth watering, you have a food stylist to thank. In this 10-hour class, an experienced food stylist will show you the tips and tricks of the trade for making irresistible, camera-ready food.
For many, a dish's aesthetic appeal is the hardest aspect to perfect. Magazines, newspapers, TV shows, and websites employ specially trained food stylists whose sole responsibility is to convey the many complexities of a dish in a single shot. In this class, you’ll learn the skills to do just that, and to transform ordinary plates into visual masterpieces.
With the ever-rising interest in mainstream cooking shows, food magazines, and food blogs, it’s never been more important to make food look as good as it tastes. Essential Techniques for Food Styling will translate your interest into a practical set of skills, by providing you with a beginner's styling kit and indispensable tips to get you started in the business. This course aims to help anyone—aspiring stylist professionals, amateur epicurean bloggers, and photographers alike—take the steps to follow their passion.
What You'll Learn
Taught by an accomplished working food stylist, this course will teach you how to:
- Build your food styling kit
Navigate the ins and outs of professional food styling - Style for different media—TV, newspapers, magazines, internet, etc.
- Work with difficult-to-style foods, such as hot and cold beverages
- Learn and practice the complexities of making fake ice cream
- Work with specific foods, such as sandwiches, hot and cold beverages, and more
- Get started in the business
Course Instructor
Lisa Schoen—a 12-year culinary veteran and graduate of The International Culinary Center—doesn’t just teach food styling; she lives it. As a food stylist for the Food Network, Lisa has worked with some of the biggest television chefs, including Bobby Flay, Emeril Lagasse, and Wolfgang Puck, helping their food make mouths water all across the country. She also has considerable experience with print publications, styling a number of cookbooks for the Food Network and for chefs Rachel Ray and Mario Batali. When not styling food, Lisa runs a successful catering company and works as a private chef for one of America’s most beloved athletes.