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Hollywood Jobs: Food Stylist

Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.

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Have you ever seen one of those ads with a perfect hamburger from your favorite fast food restaurant? Condiments squeezed on in beautiful symmetrical zig zags, sesame seeds equal distance apart, and a big, gleaming, all-beef patty.

Surely no real-life food could ever begin to live up to that picture. So blame food stylists for making that junk food look so delicious. People like Sienna Degovia, whose work has appeared in numerous places, including TV shows, magazines and a slew of advertising.

She let us follow her around her studio as she prepared for a shoot and she described her job as she prepares the food on a TV or movie set.