Mousse, Moscato & Murder by Jamie Lee Scott

Author:Jamie Lee Scott [Scott, Jamie Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jamie Lee Scott

Chapter Nine

Hattie called John, who was surprised that we had talked to Ivy. They’d been trying to get in touch with her. He told us that her phone had been turned off because the bill wasn’t paid. Hattie let him know that Ivy was at Becca’s house if he wanted to talk to her. When John asked how she happened to know this, she suddenly had a bad connection and hung up the phone.

I was relieved to finally get back to the Vendredi property and my studio. I had plenty to work on to keep my mind off of Becca and her sister, but the image of Randy standing in the doorway when Peter and I had left Becca’s house haunted me. It made me realize that even though she and I had spoken, Becca hadn’t told me the whole story. I realized I knew nothing about her after all, only what she wanted me to know. That made sense. I was a customer, not her friend.

I looked at my calendar to see what project was next. I had to keep up with my food styling clients because they were my real income.

The next account project on my schedule was a new soda shop opening in Santa Rosa. They needed all new POP (point-of-purchase) materials and posters of their ice cream treats. The store wasn’t finished yet, so there was no way I could go to Santa Rosa and photograph the ice cream in their store. Then again, if they saw what I did to make their treats look so yummy, they might not hire me again.

I’m the equivalent of hair and makeup in a movie studio, but for food. My job is to take something ordinary and make it look extraordinary, mouthwatering. Make it something that you would drive across town to purchase.

The Santa Rosa store was exclusively serving ice cream treats and had asked me to do a photo shoot with their sarsaparillas, milkshakes, ice cream sodas, and Italian ice drinks. A photo shoot like this could take anywhere from four to six hours, and sometimes longer. As you probably know, ice cream was not going to hold up. That’s where the special tricks of the food stylist came into play.

One of my favorite tools as a food stylist was Kitchen Bouquet. The color of this must have kitchen item made it great for many things. Between Kitchen Bouquet and soy sauce, I could make just about anything that had a brown color.

For the ice cream, I pulled out a tub of lard and a bag of powdered sugar. I arranged five different bowls on my work table. The flavors they had asked me for were: chocolate, which I’d make with Kitchen Bouquet; vanilla, which I could pretty much keep the color it was; mint chocolate chip, for which I would add green food coloring; and strawberry, red food coloring. I pulled out a can of Barbasol shaving cream that I’d use in place of whipped cream. Imagine how horrible whipped cream would look after only a few minutes under the lights.

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