Oh wow. I didn't realize that so much time had gone by since my last post. I started a new gig in the oh so glamorous town of Yonkers. The movie should be good as the director is one of the best in the business, but we're all kind of scared of the impending actor's strike. I took a week off to assist a food stylist on some print ads. The experience was fabulous and as I was eating the celebratory cream puff and drinking a plastic glass of champs, all I could think was, this is the life! Do I have to go back to Yonkers?
The industry I work in is all lies, but it's also funny and beautiful. A portion of my job this week was sorting through huge plastic bags of frozen prepared foods that make up a certain brand of Weight Loss frozen food meals. Here's a picture of the more perfect grilled chicken chunks next to the rejected chunks. The rejects went into the trash. A lot like life, right? Needless to say, when our lovely catered lunch from D'Orazio on Cornelia St. came into the studio, I just couldn't eat the grilled chicken breast on greens salad. However, almost everything else from D'Orazio was really delicious. Well, except this one peach tart that looked gorgeous, but the peaches were too tart and the marzipan tasteless. I still ate that beautiful lie. The other desserts they sent us were yummy, though. Angel food cupcakes with pistachio cream and a cherry on top. Their apple tart tatin was simple and delicious. We had several nice salads of asparagus and avocado, green beans and roast potatoes, beet and endive, but my favorite dishes they sent were the tomato tart, crust was deliciously buttery and the tomatoes rendered sweet from roasting. I also enjoyed their terrific eggplant parmigiana. D'Orazio goes on my vendor list for catering. No pictures of their food though. I was the newbie of the group, so I felt a little shy. I did snap this photo of my boss turning her heat gun on some pesky American cheese. It wouldn't melt the way the client wanted it. We went through 20 rounds of this Canadian bacon and about the same pieces of cheese. I was happy to slice it up, though. Using a meat slicer is fun! I can't wait to update my resume and put that in my skills section.