Rachel Holtzman

Rachel Holtzman – Editor

Chicago-based writer, editor, recipe tester, and consultant specializing in food, wellness, and lifestyle-related projects.

Overview

Rachel is a Chicago-based writer, editor, and recipe tester whose focus is cookbooks, food narrative, and lifestyle projects. After 7 years working as an editor at Penguin Books and ELLE magazine–and a brief turn in the kitchen at Gramercy Tavern–she combined her love of language, food, and snuggling with her two pugs during regular office hours.
Services
Non-Fiction
Cooking, Food, Wine, & Spirits Health & Wellbeing Self-Help & Self-Improvement
Languages
English (US)

Work experience

Self-Employed

Jul, 2011 — Present

Penguin Group USA

Dec, 2005 — Dec, 2010 (about 5 years)

ELLE magazine

Dec, 2003 — Dec, 2005 (about 2 years)

Portfolio

Robin Quivers’s New York Times–bestselling vegan cookbook, filled with more than ninety recipes Known for her levelheaded, deadpan comebacks to Howard Stern’s often outrageous banter, Robin Quivers is a force of nature. Yet few people know about her struggles ... read more
In the tradition of Michael Pollan, Mark Hyman, and Andrew Weil, pioneering integrative pediatric neurologist Maya Shetreat-Klein, MD, reveals the shocking contents of children’s food, how it’s seriously harming their bodies and brains, and what we can do abou... read more
The delicious Italian-American comfort food we all remember, love, and crave, from the owners of the legendary Artichoke Pizza.Authors Fran and Sal are two regular guys from the neighborhood, cousins and best friends, whose DNA reads garlic and oil (they're fi... read more
"One of America's great chefs" (Vogue), Grant Achatz, shares how his drive to cook immaculate food fueled his miraculous triumph over tongue cancer. By 2007 chef Grant Achatz had been named one of the best new chefs in America by Food & Wine, he had received t... read more
Twenty Dinners

Ithai Schori

A photographer (who happens to be an ex-restaurant cook) and an indie rock star (who happens to be an avid home cook) show you how to slow down your life by cooking beautiful, straightforward, but sophisticated, food for--and with--friends with this cookbook f... read more
When did making babies get to be so hard? Infertility is on the rise globally, affecting as many as one in six couples. But instead of considering diet and lifestyle factors, doctors pump their patients full of expensive and invasive fertility treatments. Once... read more

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