Food Stylist Adds to Show’s Flavor
age (“A woman doesn’t give her age”), nearly whispers so she’s not heard on camera. She admits that much of the food footage winds up on the cutting room floor — that’s costly particularly when each shooting requires five to 10 plates of identical dishes.
Most food is refrigerated, and extras usually eat pre-prepared food that is cold or at room temperature. “The main actors get the hot food, like lamb chops,” explains Iland, who worked in restaurants, owned her own catering company and worked as a food stylist on “Murder, She Wrote” for four seasons before joining “Confidential.”
She’s excited that even this early in the show’s initial season, the food has been stepped up a notch. “We’ve upped artiness; our food is now high-end; it’s towering, it’s textured. We want fabulous-looking dishes.” She loves creating recipes for the show and enjoyed appearing as an
