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Working Behind the Scenes

• Photo by Jamie Kronick

  From left, Matthew West, Spencer Watts, host of Gusto's Spencer's Big 30, and Amica Perrie review a few last-minute recipe changes and food facts, while Adam Knight, production assistant, finishes organizing the set.

• Spencer Watts, host of Gusto's Spencer's Big 30, and Amica Perrie.

• Backstage, West and Perrie discuss how to tackle the next episode while Matthew MacDonald, director of photography, works in the background.

• Perrie can often be found buried in books about food — personally and professionally — especially during her time as a recipe developer at Gusto TV.

• Perrie, and long-time employee and director at Gusto, Matthew West, taste recipes in the studio's test kitchen prior to filming the final show before the summer break.