Updated
Jan 26, 2021
All The Mouthwatering Food You See In Movies? That s Someone s Job.
As culinary culture exploded across America in the last few decades, food stylists became pervasive on Hollywood sets.
By Matthew Jacobs
Illustration by Isabella Carapella/HuffPost; Photos: Alamy and Getty Images
Seen here: Meryl Streep in Julie & Julia, Spike Lee and Danny Aiello in Do the Right Thing, and Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic.
Melissa McSorley found herself researching which apple varieties existed in the 1960s, one of many specifics that made “Mad Men” so precise. Susan Spungen became a hand double for Meryl Streep, trussing a duck in “Julie & Julia” as if she were the one portraying the legendary Julia Child. Christine Tobin set off a hotel fire alarm at 4 a.m. while searing pork chops so Frances McDormand could gnaw on the bones in the HBO miniseries “Olive Kitteridge.”