We are a team of over-achievers, never-say-nevers, and holy-moly-is-that-beautiful food experts. Like a fine wine with the most exquisite meal, everything we do complements each other, adds flavor and depth to your projects and evokes thousands of chef’s kisses per year. We’re also fun, nice, people who believe everything we do should start with joy and end with making new friends.
Beth Hawkins - Denver, Colorado
Lead Food Stylist
With 20+ years of food styling experience and recipe development, Beth has mad culinary skills, an art director’s eye for design and aesthetics, and that rare extra ingredient of loving to problem solve and manage projects. She always prefers to create, cook and style food in its most natural form, but also has enough experience to know that science, “not tricks” will save the day.
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Throughout her career, Beth has stayed current with food and visual trends, adapting to whatever social media is demanding while also relishing creating classic, award-winning images and projects that are drool-worthy in any medium.
Happiest when her hands are deep in dough (or veggies or chocolate), Beth continues to create, adjust, refine and perfect her craft between jobs. If you’re lucky, she may just bake you Sara’s famous zucchini bread.
After years of working solo, Beth is thrilled to have brought together, mentored, and partnered with this group of highly-skilled teammates. Together, they are the ultimate production and food resource in Colorado and beyond.
Outside of the kitchen: You’ll most likely find Beth on a bike: road, mountain, gravel and cross country. She also loves skiing, golfing, painting, strumming on her guitar & ukelele and cherishing (and feeding!) her family and “family-by-choice” friends. Description text goes here
Sara Kaluzshner - Denver, Colorado
Food Stylist
Sara’s styling journey began in New York, assisting top food stylists on editorial shoots for Bon Appétit, SELF, Shape, and Ladies Home Journal. She quickly made her mark, becoming the lead food stylist and recipe developer for James Beard Award–winning author James Peterson, contributing to renowned cookbooks such as Beef, Kitchen Simple, and Vegetables.
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After relocating to Colorado, Sara launched a successful artisan granola brand and became an essential part of Beth Hawkins’ styling team. She has contributed to hundreds of national campaigns, and is the person Beth always calls upon to finesse the most important hero items before they hit the set. Known as a “detail queen,” Sara has an uncanny ability to perfect texture, color, and composition at the highest level, especially when precision and polish are non-negotiable.
Sara’s assisting and lead styling client experience is both broad and elite, with standout work for brands like Noodles and Co, Red Robin, Smashburger, Jack and Annie’s, Tender Belly, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, Meati, and Kevin’s Natural Foods, alongside work for Starbucks, Silk, Bimbo, Daiya, Kevita, Halo Top Orgain, and HoneyStinger. She brings calm under pressure, creative problem-solving, and a deep love of styling that comes through in every shot.
Whether on set or prepping behind the scenes, Sara’s blend of professionalism, artistry, and culinary skill makes her a trusted partner — and a joy to work with.
As an integral part of Hawkins and Co food styling collective, Sara always has access to Beth Hawkins 28 years of food styling experience.
Kim Hicks - Denver, Colorado
Food Stylist
Growing up in the desert Southwest, Kim developed a passion early on for the warm flavors and sun soaked ingredients of the region’s cuisine. She’s always been curious, and passionate about the many types of foods she’s encountered. Before earning her degree in culinary arts from Cook Street in Denver, her resume reads more like an exhilarating travel blog. She studied in Northern Italy and Southern France, spent several years in the Caribbean cooking for a private family on a 95 foot yacht and spent three seasons working in a chalet in the mountains of Breckinridge, catering to European guests. To say she brings a global eye and a heart for adventure to every job is an understatement.
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Kim won a scholarship to the Culinary Institute of America and was able to cook alongside some of the top chefs of the day. She later owned and operated a private chef business for several years before finding her way to food styling. She also worked directly with the lead developer of Stanley Marketplace, a large food hall in Aurora, CO. She has a unique eye for composition, is a “utility player” that is valued and flexible in many situations on the job and is also a pro at texture styling for body product and make-up shoots.
Outside the kitchen: Besides all-things-food, Kim’s passions include design, event planning and as much travel as possible with her kids and two dogs. She loves a good boutique hotel, workouts with friends and interior design, is a board member of CISV (an international travel organization for kids) and is an event coordinator with Lubird’s Light Foundation.
