We are a team of over-achievers, never-say-nevers, and holy-moly-is-that-beautiful food experts. Like a fine wine with the most exquisite meal, everything we do complements each other, adds flavor and depth to your projects and evokes thousands of chef’s kisses per year. We’re also fun, nice, people who believe everything we do should start with joy and end with making new friends.
Beth Hawkins
Lead Food Stylist
With 20+ years of food styling experience and recipe development, Beth has mad culinary skills, an art director’s eye for design and aesthetics, and that rare extra ingredient of loving to problem solve and manage projects. She always prefers to create, cook and style food in its most natural form, but also has enough experience to know that science, “not tricks” will save the day.
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Throughout her career, Beth has stayed current with food and visual trends, adapting to whatever social media is demanding while also relishing creating classic, award-winning images and projects that are drool-worthy in any medium.
Happiest when her hands are deep in dough (or veggies or chocolate), Beth continues to create, adjust, refine and perfect her craft between jobs. If you’re lucky, she may just bake you her famous zucchini bread.
After years of working solo, Beth is thrilled to have brought together, mentored, and partnered with this group of highly-skilled teammates. Together, they are the ultimate production and food resource in Colorado and beyond.
Outside of the kitchen: You’ll most likely find Beth on a bike: road, mountain, gravel and cross country. She also loves skiing, golfing, painting, strumming on her guitar & ukelele and cherishing (and feeding!) her family and “family-by-choice” friends. Description text goes here
Sara Kaluzshner
Food Stylist
From toy kitchens to real ones, Sara’s love of food was piqued at an early age and she has been baking and creating fantastic foods with fervor ever since. She received her BS in Nutrition and Food Science from New York University, and her culinary degree from the Institute of Culinary Education. She has big-city experience assisting food stylists in New York on editorial and commercial shoots and big-name experience as the lead stylist for James Beard award-winning cookbook author James Peterson. Sara was honored with the roles of food stylist and recipe development for several James Peterson cookbooks including, “Beef,” “Kitchen Simple” and “Vegetables.”
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While New York’s bright lights and incredible experiences honed her skills, Sara was ready for more sunshine and adventure. She moved to Colorado and started a highly popular granola business. Her original flavors such as Blueberry Lemonade and Indian Fusion have more than once been described as the best granola ever.
Food styling remains her true passion and her patience, keen eye, and love of beautiful shots make her an asset to any shoot and a pleasure to work with. She is always up for new challenges on set, is a detail queen, can expertly pull nutritionals and is cool under pressure - no matter how hot the kitchen (or job) gets.
Outside the kitchen: Sara loves to travel, ski, swim, treasure hunt at vintage stores, tackle puzzles, and bake. She is a history buff and is happy to regale you with historical facts, should you ask.
Kim Hicks
Food Stylist
Growing up in the desert Southwest, Kim developed a passion early on for the warm flavors and sun soaked ingredients of the region’s cuisine. She’s always been curious, and passionate about the many types of foods she’s encountered. Before earning her degree in culinary arts from Cook Street in Denver, her resume reads more like an exhilarating travel blog. She studied in Northern Italy and Southern France, spent several years in the Caribbean cooking for a private family on a 95 foot yacht and spent three seasons working in a chalet in the mountains of Breckinridge, catering to European guests. To say she brings a global eye and a heart for adventure to every job is an understatement.
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Kim won a scholarship to the Culinary Institute of America and was able to cook alongside some of the top chefs of the day. She later owned and operated a private chef business for several years before finding her way to food styling. She also worked directly with the lead developer of Stanley Marketplace, a large food hall in Aurora, CO. She has a unique eye for composition, is a “utility player” that is valued and flexible in many situations on the job and is also a pro at texture styling for body product and make-up shoots.
Outside the kitchen: Besides all-things-food, Kim’s passions include design, event planning and as much travel as possible with her kids and two dogs. She loves a good boutique hotel, workouts with friends and interior design, is a board member of CISV (an international travel organization for kids) and is an event coordinator with Lubird’s Light Foundation.
