Recipe Development

Leslie Brenner has decades of recipe development experience — as a cookbook author, former Food Editor of The Los Angeles Times (whose role included overseeing its famous Test Kitchen) and Editor in Chief of the Webby Award-winning international cooking website Cooks Without Borders. Here are some of the food professionals she helps:

• A restaurateur who has been asked for a recipe by a magazine or website

• A boutique farmer who would like recipe cards to accompany subscription boxes

• Condiment or ingredient companies who’d like a set of recipes that feature their brand

• A chef starting work on a cookbook

• A food home-delivery service needing a menu refresh and seeking new recipes that travel well and reheat brilliantly

• A restaurant adding a line of heat-and-serve and other to-go products to your offerings

Media Requests

Hurray — your local city magazine has asked you for a recipe! Appearing in its pages and on its website will be fantastic publicity for your restaurant. But hey, you can’t just hand them the same thing you’d hand a new sous chef; the public doesn’t know how to read restaurantese, or how to scale down a gallon of sauce to a cup. We’ll turn your dishes into recipes that will work brilliantly for home cooks. Assigning editors will be delighted as well — as the recipes will be pre-copy-edited and proofed, perfect to the letter, and formatted in the publication’s style. Your establishment will become a go-to when the publication needs recipe content.

Recipe Cards

Whether you’re a boutique farmer needing them to tuck into a box of your just-picked produce, a restaurateur wanting to feature them on your establishment’s website or newsletter, or a food brand seeking great recipes to feature your ingredient, we’re ready and eager to help.

Meals to Go

Or maybe you’re adding a line of heat-and-serve dishes, or offering Thanksgiving dinner to go for the first time. We’ll test everything out for you, offering feedback from the user’s point of view, and write easy-to-follow reheating instructions that work.