Chapter 1: Building Your Portfolio suggestions for stylists and photographers who want to begin their portfolio or beef up an already existing portfolio. Chapter 2: Beer and Cocktails Chapter 3: Working with Packaged Foods: Pizza and Peas Tips and techniques for turning an off-the-shelf pizza into photo-worthy works of art featuring whole pizza styling and a "cheese pull" pizza slice; working with "Serving Suggestion" styling frozen veggies. Chapter 4: Soups Chapter 5: Tacos Chapter 6: Hot Dogs Chapter 7: What's for Breakfast? Working with Pancakes, Cereal, and Smoothies Chapter 8: Montage Shots: Working with a Client's Product Line features building an "Entertaining" montage image for our grocery sponsor, Central Market Chapter 9: Styling a First Course Dish: Playing with Focus, Camera Angle, Set Composition, and Crop Presented with a series of shots showing progress of styling a hero first course dish. The project will undergo focus, angle, and set composition changes to emphasize the importance of these elements in hero shots. Chapter 10: A Few Tricks of the Trade: Smoke, Drips, and Pours. Chapter 11: Shooting Food on Location: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Appendix: by Brad G Rogers; will include information about working shots on the computer, how and why food shots are handled differently than other types of shots.

Building your portfolio -- Beer and cocktails -- Styling packaged foods -- Soups -- Tacos -- Hot dogs -- What's for breakfast? -- Styling montage shots -- Styling a first course for the camera -- Tricks of the trade -- Shooting food on location.