Johnson & Wales University Artists Win Disney’s “Foodtastic”
Three JWU Charlotte artists created an eight-by-eight-foot winning Disney foodscape in a show called “Foodtastic” that requires competitors to transform everyday ingredients into works of art. Building the Lion King foodscape involved using fondant and modeling chocolate to sculpt an adolescent Simba, cake pops to create the wisecracking meerkat Timon, and micro sponge to design an umbrella tree. It all came together under three flavors of JWU culinary expertise: Associate Instructor Schellie Andrews ’16 MBA, Adjunct Instructor Austin Scoles ’18 and Food & Beverage Entrepreneurship student London Johnson ’23. Calling themselves Team Storytellers, the trio flew to Los Angeles, Calif., to compete against two other teams in the Disney+ series “Foodtastic”’s “Lion King: Queen of the Jungle” episode.