Jourdan Lynne – Editor

After gaining a decade of food service experience and receiving a Bachelor of Arts in English and French from Beloit College, I packed up my Midwestern life and set out for San Francisco to cut my teeth in the food media world. I haven't looked back!

For over a year I worked for a startup food media company writing and editing digital content, and working closely with editors and chefs alike. After that, I took a break to expand my breadth of food knowledge working as a cheesemonger in one of San Francisco's premiere food retail establishments. There, I honed my skills in recipe development and recipe writing.

For the last three years, I've worked in traditional publishing, specializing in cookbooks, cocktail manuals, and entertaining guides. Technical skills include copywriting, recipe writing, copy editing, proofreading, Anglicisation, Americanization, and ghostwriting. Having collaborated with many first-time authors and veteran chefs, I am familiar with developing book concepts, manuscripts, recipe shot lists, title information and sales sheets, proposals, tables of contents, and even the recipes themselves. Because I work in tandem with designers, artists, and photographers, I have a keen visual sense of how recipes work on the page and in front of the camera.

Whether you need an experienced writer and editor to clean up a collection of recipes or an industry professional to help cut to the core of your cookbook concept, look no further - cookbooks are all I do, and I do it all!