Cindie Flannigan:
CLASS OF 1977
Venice High SchoolClass of 1977
Los angeles, CA
California Culinary AcademyClass of 2001
San francisco, CA
Otis College of Art & DesignClass of 1979
Los angeles, CA
Mark Twain Junior High SchoolClass of 1974
Venice, CA
Beethoven Elementary SchoolClass of 1971
Mar vista, CA
Cindie's Story
Life
I was married for seven years; divorced in 1992. No kids but a bunch of wonderful nephews and nieces. After the scientific research company I worked for as an art director for nearly 20 years (1979-1999) relocated to Virginia, I worked at various advertising agencies in the Los Angeles area. Realizing that advertising was not my thing, I took a couple of months off and traveled, and thought about what I wanted to do.
I ended up moving to San Francisco and enrolling at the California Culinary Academy. After school, I moved back to Los Angeles and started working at Food Fanatics (see what we do at: foodfanatics.net).
Now my life revolves around food and travel, reading and writing. It could so easily be worse! I ride my Harley Dyna whenever and wherever I can; last big trip was to Death Valley. I use any excuse to travel. Recent trips have been to France, Vienna, Prague, Ireland, England and any excuse to go to Paris. Upcoming trips: Scotland, Italy, Tunisia, India. I go to San Francisco whenever I can because it's my favorite city.
School
Venice High School, gra...Expand for more
duated 1977
Mark Twain Junior High School, graduated 1974
Beethoven Elementary School, graduated 1971
College
Santa Monica Community College, Otis Art Institute, Parsons School of Design, UCLA, American FIlm Institute, and the California Culinary Academy in San Franciso.
Workplace
What I do as part of the Food Fanatics team is provide prop food for television and movies; style food for photo shoots; provide food and direction for cooking demonstrations for television and video; write entertaining and catering books under my own name and as a ghost writer for celebritie cookbooks; I also develop, test and edit recipes; and teach classes on food styling. For more detailed information check out the rest of the site I designed at foodfanatics.net
I get paid to play with food. Who knew there were jobs like this? My single favorite part of my work is styling food for a photo shoot for a cookbook. We also work on lots of tv shows and commercials. Everyday I get to meet new, creative and interesting people. TV sets are fascinating but I am glad I don't work on one every day.
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