![]() Given that my Tasting Table column is all about at-home entertaining, I figured she'd be the perfect person to interview for this week's topic: How to Throw a Last Minute Dinner Party. In addition to food styling, she's also penned several cookbooks, including her latest What's A Hostess to Do (Artisan), a must-read for at-home cooks, with over 300 tips, recipes, and checklists for every possible at-home entertaining scenario. You've seen her work on numerous covers of magazines like Food & Wine, Bon Appetit, and Martha Stewart Living, as well as in movies such as Julie & Julia, Eat, Love, Pray, and most recently, Labor Day. Susan – in case you don't know – is one of the top food stylists in the industry. She has also appeared on Foodography, on the Cooking Channel.I'm so excited to share with you all a recent story I had the chance to write for Tasting Table on one of my personal food heroes, Susan Spungen. She has also appeared on national morning shows such as Today, CBS this Morning, and Fox & Friends. She contributes both her food styling and recipe creation skills to a variety of magazines including Bon Appetit, Food & Wine, O the Oprah Magazine, and More Magazine where she is a Contributing Food Editor. Her bi-monthly column, “Easy Entertaining,” appeared in Martha Stewart Living through 2004. She appeared regularly on Martha Stewart Living TV and helped create a line of kitchenware for K-Mart. Susan co-authored the award-winning bestseller Martha Stewart’s Hors D’Oeuvres Handbook and helped launch the first Martha Stewart all-food title Everyday Food. Her artistic eye became the defining factor in the bright, clean look of the Martha Stewart brand. The position was a perfect pairing of Spungen’s love of food and clear artistic vision. In the early years of the then-fledgling magazine, she conceived, developed and tested recipes, styled the recipes for photo shoots, and explained the total concept to readers. ![]() In 1991, Susan joined Martha Stewart Living as founding food editor and was charged with creating a test kitchen and food department. She also completed work as food stylist on Jason Reitman’s new film, Labor Day, where she was charged with the responsibility of creating “The Greatest Pie-making Scene in Cinema History”, and trained actors Josh Brolin and Kate Winslet how to make pie onscreen. She recently traveled to Rome to work on Eat, Pray, Love, starring Julia Roberts and directed by Ryan Murphy of Nip/Tuck fame. (And yes, the boeuf Bourguignon in the movie was Susan’s!) She also was the go-to food consultant and stylist on It’s Complicated, starring Meryl Streep and directed by Nancy Meyers. She was the culinary consultant and food stylist for Julie and Julia, where she consulted with director Nora Ephron about what food should appear in the film and then made it all look delicious. The restaurant’s globe-trotting dishes were a gastronomic revelation for the teen and she fell in love with food. Susan began her cooking career when she was 17 years old and worked at the Commissary, a restaurant legend in its time in Philadelphia. The book is a compilation of Susan’s favorite recipes and is directed at novices and experts alike. She is the author of Recipes: A Collection for the Modern Cook,which won an IACP cookbook award. Susan Spungen is a cook, food stylist, recipe developer, editor and author.
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