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food stylist

American

noun

a person whose job is to arrange food in an attractive way for professional photographs or broadcasts.

food stylist British

noun

a person who prepares food for photographs used in magazines, cookery books, etc

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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When restaurants couldn’t divulge their secret recipes, some attempts required a full reverse-engineering to figure them out — a specialty of L.A.-based recipe developer and food stylist Jasmyn Crawford.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2025

Catriona Byers is a historian who moonlights as a food stylist.

From BBC • Oct. 10, 2025

As a food stylist and recipe developer, I had already been working in this space for years and loved that I was able to make a career of it.

From Salon • May 28, 2024

“For me, the food stylist was often pretty low on the totem pole,” said Susan Spungen, a cookbook author who served in the stylist role on “Julie & Julia” and “It’s Complicated.”

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2024

Bev Cox, a home economist and food stylist, was an inspiration for her meticulous attention to detail, her enthusiasm, and her unfailing good humor no matter what.

From The Perdue Chicken Cookbook by Perdue, Mitzi

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