"I eat fries in order: from the shortest to the longest one" Natalia Londoño, 35, Food stylist at Espacio Crudo

Creative Professionals Reveal their Odd Eating Habits in the series Spoiled Kids

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We usually associate picky eating with toddlers and children. Yet eating habits actually carry on to adulthood, albeit in a slightly less disruptive and obnoxious manner – a subject Colombian food stylist and photographer Paola Sanchez explores in her entertaining series Falta de Juete, or Spoiled Kids.

The project calls for two images laid side by side: on the left, a photo of the ‘spoiled kid’; on the right, a visual narrative of their quirky eating habits. Her subjects, professionals in different creative fields, cagingly reveal their food oddities. Among them: a photographer who peels the chocolate sides off a Snickers bar to get to the caramel part, a food stylist who eats fries from the shortest to longest, or a fashion designer who’ll eat fruit… but only in even numbers. It’s a fascinating look at how people navigate their relationship with food time, transforming eyebrow-raising mannerisms into something endearing.

When she isn’t busy unearthing people’s weird eating habits, Sanchez runs Crudo with her two partners, photographer Andres Caicedo and food stylist Natalia Londono. Crudo is a food design and photography studio that reinterprets the aesthetics of ingredients, recipes and food itself.

“When eating a buñuelo or fried cheese dough, without breaking it, I take out the soft center and then i eat the crunchy shell”
Paola Sánchez, 28, Art Director at Espacio Crudo and Owner of Merci Patisserie
“i peal one by one the chocolate sides of the snickers, just to eat the caramel center at the end”
Felipe Díaz, 30, Photographer at Pink Flamingo
“I eat fries in order: from the shortest to the longest one”
Natalia Londoño, 35, Food stylist at Espacio Crudo
“I can’t stand eating fries one by one”
Mauricio Pérez, 29, Copy Writer
“Do you ever consider not putting lemon in everything you eat?”
Pamela Giraldo, 31, Fashion Designer at Scissor Killers
“i know this sounds weird, but at breakfast I always eat two types of fruits… I grab both flavors with the fork and eat them. I can’t eat one single flavor by its own or the fruit if it isn’t organized in even numbers”
Daniela Moreno, 28, Fashion Designer at Ñero Indumentaria
“i eat white bread by removing the brown border, smashing the soft part and making balls out of it”
Gustavo Rodriguez (Budas), 28, Art Director at Britten
“i divide all the food i get served in half mentally, I always eat the first half of everything…. then… if i am still hungry i eat the other half”
Julián Barrera, 28, Art Director at Ogilvy & Mather
Spoiled Kids
“I never finish a drink to avoid washing the glass”
Andrés Caicedo, 28, Photographer at Espacio Crudo

Images © Paola Sanchez / with permission