Kate Itrich-Williams

Kate Itrich-Williams – Editor

I'm an award-winning culinary editor and writer with more than 15 years of experience perfecting recipes in cookbooks and online.

Overview

I love helping create fun, engaging, and (most importantly) useful recipes. As an editor who also works as a recipe developer and writer, I always want to make sure that my writers are being supported and encouraged.

After 15 years in culinary development, I bring a sharply analytical eye to every piece of content I see. My years at America's Test Kitchen gave me a strong foundation in recipe writing, and my work shaping recipes for kitchen brands and in cookbooks taught me how to pull out an authors voice. These two powers combined make for quality recipes.

I can help you fine-tune your recipe language, brainstorm headnotes, and double-check that you've included every last detail in your directions. I'm a stickler for proper ingredient lists and I love making a style guide.

I'm equally comfortable working on long-form projects (cookbooks!) as I am in a blog- or social media-driven recipe format.

Services
Non-Fiction
Cooking, Food, Wine, & Spirits
Languages
English (US)
Awards
  • James Beard Award (Nominations)
  • IACP (Nomination)
  • NAACP Image Award

Work experience

Anova Culinary

Oct, 2021 — Dec, 2025 (about 4 years)
Led culinary content development across three connected smart appliances, copy editing, and publishing over 175 recipes and 90 single-ingredient cooking guides.

Alton Brown

Oct, 2019 — Jan, 2021 (over 1 year)
Managed a five-person culinary and content team for Alton Brown, developing and editing recipes to fully realize Alton’s vision. Produced recipes for three seasons of television, plus a cookbook, in 18 months.

Southern Kitchen

Jul, 2017 — May, 2019 (almost 2 years)
Led content team at a culinary e-commerce website centered around Southern cooking. Managed editorial calendar and content creation across staff and freelance teams with emphasis on SEO.

East Bay Nosh

Jan, 2015 — Apr, 2017 (about 2 years)
Founding food editor for a hyperlocal news website, helping to grow monthly visits from 500K to 1 million. Managed content calendar, developed an in-house culinary style guide and project-managed first dining guide.

Self-employed

Jun, 2012 — Present
Specializations include cookbooks, copywriting, recipe editing, product strategy, content marketing, recipes, trend reporting and culinary science. Published by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Chronicle Books, Serious Eats, Ten Speed Press and more.

America's Test Kitchen

Jun, 2010 — Jun, 2012 (about 2 years)
Developed recipes and wrote accompanying headnotes for the cookbooks department. Served as hand model and photo shoot cook in addition to development work.

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