Posted on 05/19/2014 8:51:43 AM PDT by upbeat5
Blowtorches, tweezers and glue: These are just a few of the items used to create those mouth-watering restaurant ads.
To make food look as appealing as possible, food stylists and photographers use a range of instruments, good lighting, fresh ingredients and attention to detail. These tricks of the trade help explain why restaurant meals from the drive-thru often look very different than they do in promotional images.
"Nothing is just plopped down and put in the center like it is when you order at a restaurant," said Jean Ann Bybee, owner of Bybee Photography and co-author of a pair of books about food styling.
During shoots, stylists use tweezers, toothpicks, scissors, small blowtorches, paper, tape, glue, pins, paint, oil and glycerin to manipulate and enhance food, Bybee said.
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Michael Douglas doesn’t look at all like that anymore...ate too many tacos
Reason number 15,672,839 why open borders and multiculturalism are horrible ideas and do not benefit or "enrich" Americans.
The movie’s name was Falling Down. It was about an “angry conservative” the problem was most Americans were sick of the issues shown in the movie then and are surely more angry now. Essentially we identified with the guy. Michael Douglas did a good job.
Hmm, wonder if any of those models work in XXX movies /chuckle
A local pizza joint has had a sign in their window for “help wanted” for about a month. Yesterday I saw a new banner, stretched out near the highway for help wanted....but this time in spanish.
When I was in HS in the 60s, all new hires in any food service were required to get tested for TB before starting work.
I’m pretty sure that’s not happening anymore. I assume it would be considered racist and discriminatory towards illegals.
The TB rate in SE Florida is bad. Duh. Pack your lunch if you’re driving through there.
I never saw anything like the plastic food displays in Tokyo! Isn’t there a street there devoted to many manufacturers of fake food?
this reminds me of something i did... i was staying at a nice upscale hotel in San Francisco (in Nob Hill)... we ordered room service for breakfast... among all the food was a small bowl of beautifully whipped butter... i put it on my toast and could not believe how good this butter was... so creamy... so milky... then as i was eating, i notice these little pats of butter, and i thought, why would they serve these little pats of butter when they served this wonderfully whipped butter in this bowl... turned out it was not butter but whipped cream for the hot chocolate... :)
and i have to say, it was not only the best butter i had ever tasted (which in the end, it was not butter) but it was also the best whipped cream i had ever tasted... not too sweet... just fresh and creamy...
All the English speaking kids around there are employed? Good for you guys.
Possibly...but you would be amazed at the overall dimensions of the most popular 'actresses' in the genre. Most are barely 5 ft. tall.
Have some fun. Go into Mc Butts and order a Big Mac with quarter pounder meat. Get extra sauce. It’s pretty good and really looks like the picture if the meat is fresh. I had a good time with this when traveling around the country. Got my first one in Washington NC. The kid at the counter tripped off line like a short circuiting Stepford Wife. Later in Morris ILL. the manager told me she was sorry but McConalda just didn’t make those. I chuckled and told her that southerners were smarter than Yankees, telling her about Washington NC. Don’t you know I got my sandwich!
Years ago, while dining out with my brother the meal was served with a small cup of horseradish for use with the prime rib. He thought it was sour cream for the baked potato... and also ended up with a priceless look on his face after the first bite.
My spanish is very much kitchen, and very little Castillian.
/johnny
They sure used oatmeal in the 60s when I worked there. Of course oatmeal won’t hurt you like some things that could be used to stretch meat. We were to use no more than one ounce of meat per taco (the boss would occasionally weigh them to check). And only a small pinch of cheese “to add color”. But everything on the menu was 19¢.
McD’s still makes me belch, no matter how pretty their stuff is made to look. ( never used to. And Burger King sill no problem)
I’m glad they mentioned gelatin. It’s put in any drink to make the whipped cream or whatever stay on top. Woe to the person who tries to drink it after the shoot.
There’s also something for melted cheese—I don’t think I ever learned what—as melted cheese congeals immediately under the lights.
Once at a shoot for some kind of dip, an idiot said, “Looks like cement.” The client was standing right there. All at once it looked like cement to everyone and had to be done a different way. $$$
I did the same thing one time with a bunch of stuffed tomatoes. The way they were arranged, it looked like a tomato parade. Everyone cracked up and that was all anyone could see after that point. Fortunately, I was the client that time so I didn’t get the stinkeye from anyone.
One major rule: Don’t ever let the person who cooked the food be the stylist. They know it has good ingredients and tastes good, so they are incapable of seeing it with fresh eyes.
I was what they call a "fussy eater". "He is fussy" "He is a fussy eater". "Fussy eater" is a euphemism for.....big pain in the ass! I mean, if I didn't like something, I told them! Picked up my food and said: "I don't like that!" "Did you make this?" "I don't like it!" "Why?" They wanted reasons! Well, you don't always have a reason! "I don't know!" Then they would try to corner me with logic... "How do you know you don't like it.....if you've never even tried?" "It came to me in a dream!" Some things don't look right! "I don't like that, Ma!" "Don't look right to me!" "Did you make that?" "Is there a picture of it in the cookbook?" "I bet it don't look like that!"
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