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The gruelling job of feeding cast and crew on a major movie or TV production
The Food Chain · BBC World Service
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Show Notes
Catering on film and TV sets is notorious for being one of the toughest jobs in the hospitality industry.
Imagine feeding hundreds of people in a different location every day, running your kitchen in some of the world’s most remote places, and accommodating the varied diets of the planet’s biggest stars.
Tamasin Ford speaks to three caterers to find out what it takes to succeed in Hollywood, Bollywood, and the world of reality TV, and finds out how vital food can be to the success of a shoot.
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Producer: Simon Tulett
Contributors:
Sid Ghai, director of Ghai Caterers Ltd, London; Antonia Crowley, executive chef and event stylist at Flying Trestles, Auckland; Wayne Brown, co-founder of Red Radish, London.
(Picture: A stack of pizza boxes next to a film director's chair. Credit: Getty Images/BBC)