food writing

A Fine Pumpkin Cookie, Plus Some Very Gratifying Praise

October 24, 2013 By Nancy Baggett 3 Comments

In a blog post a while back, I mentioned that my very first submission to the Washington Post was almost turned down due to my recipes. The food editor at the ...

Wanna Be a Better Food Writer?—3 Key Writing Exercises to Try

July 5, 2012 By Nancy Baggett 12 Comments

A while back David Leite of Leites Culinaria and I teamed up and had fun teaching a food writing workshop at a BlogHer food bloggers' convention in Atlanta. The ...

The Big Eighth Step to Tastier Culinary Prose

May 24, 2011 By Nancy Baggett 5 Comments

Today, I have the same feeling as when I discover I’ve given a recipe with a dropped ingredient to a tester. Except it's magnified 50 times because I omitted a ...

Welcome to KitchenLane! It’s a comfortable place where I create, thoroughly test, and photograph recipes for my cookbooks and blog. All my recipes are original, not adaptations from others. I trained as a pastry chef, so many offerings are desserts and baked goods. Some are also healthful, savory dishes I contribute to healthy eating publications. My recipes are always free of artificial dyes, flavorings, and other iffy additives, which I won’t serve my family—or you! Instead, dishes feature naturally flavorful, colorful ingredients including fresh herbs, berries, edible flowers, and fruits, many from my own suburban garden or local farmers’ markets. Since lots of readers aspire to write cookbooks, I also blog on recipe writing and editing and other helpful publishing how-to info accumulated while authoring nearly 20 well-received cookbooks over many years.