Marian Cooper Cairns

Marian Cooper Cairns is a food stylist and recipe developer based in Los Angeles with 20 years of experience in the food industry. Originally from Alabama, she still sports a southern accent and is known for making really bad food puns on social media and can make you a darn great buttermilk biscuit, just ask. When she is not poking at food with tweezers she loves to talk all things Pimento Chz Club, her small batch pimento cheese company. Her passion for food styling and recipe development serves clients for ad campaigns, product packaging, cookbooks, and commercials. Clients include Jack in the Box, Whole Foods, Target, Walmart, Sams Club, Damn Delicious, Southern Living, Food and Wine, and Good Catch Foods, and Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute to name a few.

Marian Cooper Cairns is a food stylist and recipe developer based in Los Angeles with 20 years of experience in the food industry.

She combines her background in Photography and a Culinary Arts Degree as a freelance food stylist for the past decade
Previously on staff as a Test Kitchen Professional at Southern Living Magazine for 6 years
Her work has been published in multiple national magazines such as Better Homes and Gardens, Eating Well, Food and Wine, and Southern Living Magazine as well as over 20 cookbooks
She is the food stylist, recipe developer, and art director at Damn Delicious Food Blog for the past 6 years

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