Janice Poon
Janice Poon
Food Stylist: American Gods, Hannibal
NOTE: Drawn on paper (same size as a doodle card) and comes with thick backing board and plastic cover.
Janice Poon is an award-winning Toronto painter, sculptor, author and food stylist for AMERICAN GODS, HANNIBAL, STAR TREK DISCOVERY, DC's TITANS, Disney's ZOMBIES, THE HANDMAID'S TALE, and THE SHAPE OF WATER.
Her best-selling cookbook, "Feeding Hannibal", is a collection of the show’s recipes adapted for non-cannibals. It features concept sketches from the show as well as behind the scenes photos and stories. She explains the process in her HANNIBAL production blog.
"Each week I read the script, and I try to get an idea of what would be the most appropriate, the most beautiful, and yet the most grizzly food I can think of. And of course we have to remember that Hannibal is always eating people - even if he tells you it's lamb tongues, it's people's tongues.
The most challenging is to make food that the actors are going to be able to eat, that is palatable to them - I don't want them freaking out! - and that isn't going to be like spinach and get stuck to their teeth or isn't going to be something they'll have to chew in the middle of their line.
The best part of this job is dreaming up the recipes, but I love all of it. I love cooking. I love doing the displays. Creating a monstrous, diabolically hideous look, that somehow is curiously delicious."
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