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Learn more professional food styling techniques: everything from breakfast, packaged food, and dessert.

 

Day 1 – Breakfast Food Techniques

  1. Pancakes: butter that melts, syrup that doesn’t get absorbed, syrup pours
  2. Bacon: making ruffles, adding cool, making it look hot
  3. Hash browns: getting that golden color, building and stabilizing
  4. Eggs, sunny side up: setting the whites without cooking the yolk, holding, patching holes
  5. Eggs, omelets: fillings, creating bulk, fixing tears, melting cheese, making steam
  6. Cereal in milk: false-bottoming bowls, the uses of cream and glue, cereal in a spoon

Day 2 – Dinner Food Techniques

  1. Steak, mashed potatoes, and green beans: how to plate and garnish
  2. Chicken breast, rice pilaf, and broccoli: hot to plate and garnish
  3. Soups: steam and false-bottoming, plating and garnishing
  4. Frozen desserts: Special equipment, preparing product for scooping, pre-scooping ice cream and sorbets, plating and garnishing
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Denise Vivaldo

A seasoned food professional with over 27 years of experience, Denise Vivaldo has catered more than 10,000 parties and has cooked for such guests as George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Prince Charles, Bette Midler, Suzanne Somers, Merv Griffin, Cher, Aaron Spelling, Sly Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Maria Shriver. She began her culinary training at the Ritz Escoffier and La Varenne in Paris, and then graduated Chef de Cuisine from the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco. Denise spent numerous years as a professor at UCLA’s Culinary Program and at her Alma Mater, The California Culinary Academy.

In 1988, Denise founded Food Fanatics, a catering, recipe-development, and foodstyling firm based in Los Angeles, California. Since that time, she has catered for such events as the Academy Awards Governor’s Ball, Sunset Magazine’s Taste of Sunset, and Hollywood wrap parties. She has also styled food for countless local and nationally syndicated television shows such as The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, NapaStyle with Michael Chiarello, and Access Hollywood Live with Billy Bush.

Denise is the author of How to Start a Home-Based Catering Business, which has sold more than 150,000 copies and is in its 6th edition, and How to Start a Home-Based Personal Chef Business. She is also the author of The Food Styling Handbook, Perfect ...

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