Why Chicken Plays Fish on Downton Abbey, and Other Tricks of the Food-Prop Trade: Downton Abbey returns to the U.S. on January 6, complete with more scandal, pastoral views, and food that looks almost as scintillating as the plot lines. But all meals are not as they appear. The Boston Globe has some of the secrets that London-based food stylist Lisa Heathcote employs on set, such as subbing in oyster mushrooms for real oysters (it works, apparently).

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