Food styling requires a critical amount of pure invention and creative problem solving. Check out the ‘skeleton’ that remained after I dismantled a cookie diorama I photographed for Eleni’s New York. Museum wax is a staple in any food-stylist’s kit, but absolutely anything available is fair game when I’m working: here I used fake ice cubes, ramekins, straight pins, a paintbrush, and metal picture hanging hardware to support the cookies.