Omnivore - Hey pasta, why you look so fly?

How paint strippers, scissors and spray bottles make food look good


Ever wonder why your Big Mac never seems to look as good in person as it did on TV? Well, it could be your personal perception, tainted with impending waves of self-hate and subsequent “I should have gone to Subway” rhetoric, but it could also be something else. When food is filmed it gets primped, poked and prodded just as much as Kim Kardashian at her latest Playboy shoot. Sean Patrick Farrell and David Segal of the New York Times report on how food stylists at Arf & Co. in Hoboken, NJ make food look sexy for the camera.