Charles W. Granquist

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Title: Food Stylist

Year you started at FN: 2006

Path at FN: Freelance to full-time food stylist

Culinary education/background: Institute of Culinary Education; Blue Hill NYC, Savoy, Fleur de Sel

Cuisine you're known for: Simple seasonal cooking

Favorite food: Pork

Food you won't go near: Fast

Culinary inspiration: Fresh produce

Favorite show: Feasting on Asphalt

Do you prefer sweet foods or savory: Savory

If you were a condiment, what would you be: Marmite. I'm an acquired taste that leaves a slightly acrid taste in your mouth. But the Brits and Aussies love me!

Funniest behind-the-scenes story: On The Next Food Network Star, when the contestants went to the Rachael Ray Show, I was setting up for contestant Amy and forgot to put out a kettle of boiling water, a key component of her demonstration. I realized right at the last moment and tried to run out and fix it but the demo had already started. Needless to say, Amy reached the part of her demo with the boiling water and for a second I thought everything was going to fall apart, but luckily Rachael jumped in with her own pot she had on the back stove just in time.