Food Stylists : Mari-Louis Guy and Callie Maritz
Award-winning stylist and sibling team Mari-Louis Guy and Callie Maritz's latest book on all things baked 'Cakebread Pudding&Pie' will hit the shelves in July and judging by early media interest, looks set to be another winner. Their first 'Cakes to Celebrate Love and Life' has won the Gourmand World Book Award for Best Dessert book (South-Africa 2009) and is currently in its fourth print for English and third for the Afrikaans version. In 2010 they completed a general cookbook for Hamilton's advertising and Food Lover's Market title 'Love & Food'. Unique in the sense that they develop their own recipes, write and style their own content, their food-styling career spans print media from magazines to billboards, television advertising, in-store videos, catalogues and recipe-development and pack-styling for supermarket brands.
A 'thought to food' series they shot on 'Boerewors' in 2009 with photographer Melody Deas won 3rd place in the International Photography Awards in the Advertising Food Category and subsequently appeared on the cover of Foto & Video Russia. Equally at home in front of camera, they have made several appearances on South-African television as food specialists. Stylists by trade and bakers by nature, they have collaborated with some of SA's best dress designers to design, bake and style cakes and desserts for celebrity weddings, hotel openings and media events.
