Once, for a job, Janice Poon had to consider how she would go about cooking a human leg. Poon is the food stylist you call when you need fantastical food on film, for scenes ranging from gory to gourmet. Though, sometimes, it’s both simultaneously. In one episode of the television series Hannibal, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, fiction’s most epicurean cannibal, methodically slices a victim’s leg with a bandsaw to the soaring tunes of Beethoven’s Ninth, dusts it with flour, and braises it in white wine, with nary a speck of blood…
