Creating Edible Props For Movies and TV

[minoanmiss]

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Don't worry, that thing on his tongue is a date (the fruit) in a seaweed costume. It was created by an awesome woman, a food stylist, whose job looks utterly awesome.

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[sovay]

a date (the fruit) in a seaweed costume

That's really cool.

[minoanmiss]

That's why I had to post this! Her job combines creativity and food science in a way that makes me ever so envious!

[darkmarcy]

Fascinating video, thanks for the link! I had only heard of Janice Poon, the food stylist for Hannibal, but clearly this is an important job to have in the film/tv industry :D

EVEN MORE FOOD STYLISTS!

[rmd]

I was also expecting this to be about Janice Poon. She also did the food for the Easter dinner in the season 1 finale of American Gods. (Not sure they needed her skills the rest of the season.) My favorite set of challenges she had with Hannibal, besides trying to get sea urchins very far out of season, was that both (I'm 90% sure I'm remembering correctly that it was these two) Lawrence Fishburn and Gina Torres were vegetarians, so she had to make things that looked like meat that they could eat on screen.

[lunabee34]

How cool. It's such an artistic job.

[sabotabby]

Oooh! I'm excited to watch this.

[sabotabby]

Right I'm using this in my film class looool.

[cjsmith]

oh wow, that’s artistry!

[thnidu]

Fantastic!

But what's this about?
"Cut due to a disturbing image."

[minoanmiss]

Well, the still image of the video is our host with the fake cockroach on his tongue. That can disquiet some, so I wanted to give a head's up.

[med_cat]

Very interesting; never thought of those things ;)

[acelightning73]

My mother used to make stuffed dates to put into her fruitcake. She's slice into a nice plump sticky date, and shove a whole almond into it, then roll the whole thing in sugar so it wouldn't be too sticky. These would get marinated in assorted kinds of booze, and incorporated with the batter to add texture to the fruitcake. Nothing to do with edible offal.