A 20 year culinary veteran, Denise Vivaldo teaches seminars and workshops across the country and has trained many of the stylists working in Los Angeles today.

Cindie Flannigan has been styling, designing, and teaching with Food Fanatics since 2001.

For information on upcoming classes visit the Culinary Entrepreneurship Program website.

Food Fanatics
P.O. Box 351088,
Los Angeles, California 90035
phone 310-836-3520
fax 310-836-3422
DVivaldo@earthlink.net

 
We have an extensive network of food stylists, prop stylists, art directors and photographers. We will assemble a team perfect for your project. Please don't hesitate to call or e-mail us for information. If you are a: Food Show Producer, Food Photographer, Prop Master, Art Director, Cookbook Author or Publisher and are looking for food stylists, prep kitchen staff, or prop food Food Fanatics is here to help.

• Food styling for photography
• Food styling for TV and movies
• Segment blocking for cooking demonstrations and TV shows
• Prop food for TV shows, infomercials and movies
• Writing entertaining and catering books
• Developing, testing and editing recipes
• Teaching classes and giving demonstrations


We are very excited about the most recent project we collaborated on: The Date Night Cookbook by Meredith Phillips. Some of the cookbooks we’ve worked on have won awards recently. Eat Taste Heal: An Ayurvedic Cookbook for Modern Living has won the Maverick Award for Excellence in Photography and The Private Chef won the Golden Ink Bronze Prize in the cookbook category. Food Fanatics also won the IACP Food Stylist Award in 2003 for Commercial Art and Photography.

"...you have the most caring, diligent, professional staff I've ever worked with throughout my career! Thank you so much for making my food demo flawless!"
- George Duran
"Ham on the Street"
Food Network