Food Stylist, Baltimore

For more than 20 years, Debbie Wahl has been working as a food stylist, exercising her culinary skill and artistic sense to enhance food for its strongest visual appeal. Debbie’s expertly styled food photographs have been featured in print advertising, food packaging, and on television and film, for clients including Campbell’s Soup, Coca-Cola, Friendly’s Restaurants, Perdue chicken, Pizza Hut, McCormick Spice Company and Stouffer Foods.

In addition to her proficiency in food preparation and her flair for food styling, Debbie brings other essential assets to the table. Her patience and persistence has ensured Debbie’s success from smoothly styling a picnic meal in mid-summer in a stifling sailboat galley for Bon Appétit magazine to preparing 600-pounds-worth of turkey dinners for the Barry Levinson film Avalon. And, certainly, it’s Debbie’s energy, professionalism and great sense of humor that allows her to seamlessly blend with a myriad of photographers, art and set directors and even the occasional celebrity chef.

Along with her extensive experience in food styling, Debbie has provided a wide range of services, including media tour support, recipe development, recipe contest coordinating, focus group supervising and menu planning and implementation, to a full spectrum of clients, from food manufacturers and trade associations to cookbook publishers and restaurant-industry leaders. But she still loves the pace and scale of working on television commercials the best.

Debbie was graduated cum laude from Ohio University with a Bachelor of Science degree in commercial foods and a minor in communications.

Images on this page were shot by photographer Bill Schilling. Visit www.debbiewahl.com to view more of Debbie’s work.