ABOUT

Michelli Knauer is a Los Angeles based Food Stylist working in commercial print and video, editorial, film and television.

Traveling across the US and internationally. 

“My recent work producing and styling food for cameras follows several years of experience in many facets under the cooking umbrella.

After attending Marketing University in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, I moved to New York where I found the easiest way to communicate was through food.

Coming from a line of cooks and chemistry, the one place I knew well was the kitchen. That was the year I started to cook professionally and that was the beginning of an exciting path.

After 22 years in New York where I was proudly interacting and working with the top tear professionals in the industry I relocated to Los Angeles, California where I continue to pursue my career goals, feeding cameras and people and connecting with the most compatible talented professionals”.

There’s a New York Times Magazine article about me, my Feijoada’s recipe and Brazil

NY Times article (link)

I had the highlight of winning #4 best holiday ad by AdAge for a Sears spot. 

Adage article (link)

PHILOSOPHY

“The Food Stylist works directly with the creative team giving life to a storyboard. We control the process, displaying the food at its best representation, hot, cold, wet, melting, burning, steaming. Understanding how food behaves and how food reacts when put in contact with light, oxygen, acidity and heat.
As I like to say, the food is my muse through the camera lenses.”

CLIENTS LIST

• Buitoni

• Windex

• Tyson

• Ritz

• Banza Pasta

• Libby's

• Miller Lite Beer

• GE

• Pillsbury

• Kraft

• Pledge

• Chef Boyardee

• Athenos

• Scrubbing Bubbles