What You Can Expect While Working With
Mise Magic
My services are available to you individually, as a group package, or you can opt for a package that includes all the services I offer. For example, you may want me to review and test a single recipe, or you may want me to develop and enrich a series of recipes, provide step-by-step photography, and then write a blog about the process. It’s entirely up to you.
Regardless of the specific services you hire me for, you will gain an experienced and conscientious culinary services professional. I’m fully engaged in my work and committed to understanding your goals and concerns. My promise is to deliver your project on time, paying meticulous attention to detail. I strive for excellence in every phase, ensuring your project is completed to the highest standards.
You’ll discover I’m an excellent listener, easy to work with, and deeply compassionate about your goals and desires. I’m dedicated to delivering exceptional culinary services to you in a professional, upbeat, and enjoyable approach.
Recipe Development, Research, Testing & Cooking
With over 50 years in the culinary field, my expertise spans recipe research, development, testing, and cooking. My extensive personal library boasts over 275 cookbooks, food reference and food history books, and a collection of more than 3,500 personally curated and tested recipes.
This comprehensive background equips me to tackle any recipe development challenges you may face. With experience in a wide array of cuisines and cooking styles, I am excited to assist you in mastering your most critical recipe projects. Please check out our recipe development section to view samples of my recipe development projects, from the initial recipes provided to me to the final completed dishes.
Food & Product Styling & Photography
From my kitchen studio, I will provide step-by-step photographs of the recipe being developed and tested. My goal is to visually capture the cooking process, clearly demonstrating the cooking techniques and steps necessary to follow the recipe, which I achieve through vibrant and visually stimulating photographs. If you're interested in seeing what this looks like, check out our oven rib recipe.
And if you have a food item or product that needs photographing, my exacting standards of creativity and visual stimulation will help bring your unique product to life. You can see my work in our plated food section.
Food & Product Styling & Videography
As discussed above in the photography services, I can also create visually engaging and captivating videos from my kitchen studio for your recipe development, food item, or product.
Adding a video that clearly shows the cooking techniques and steps required to follow the recipe enhances the overall presentation. This creates a compelling and inspiring showcase for your recipe, food item, or product. If you would like to review a sample of my work, please watch my steak tartar video.
Food & Travel Photography & Videography
Should your project require travel to a specific location or necessitate a particular backdrop or scene, I am open to accommodate your request, schedule permitting.
If you want to see what my work on the road looks like, please check out my food photography travel section or videography travel section.
Photography & Videography Editing Services
The cost of my services includes a certain level of photo and video editing. This can range from enhancing and perfecting images to creating photo sequences like my Tour d’Agrent sequence or short reels like my chicken marinade blender video.
For more advanced video editing needs (such as adding music, voiceovers, visual effects, titles, and captions), we have a team of skilled video editing professionals ready to meet your requirements.
Food & Travel Blog Writer, Newsletter Writer, Content Writer & Copywriter
My ability to convey a story, topic, or idea as if I were speaking directly to the person standing next to me has always resonated with my audience. I’d like to offer this conversational writing style for your project.
Also, as a food historian and a passionate food researcher, my spirited desire to uncover the unknown hidden gems in a food topic or food history has led me on many adventurous writing journeys, like my Paris market blog post. I’m committed to ensuring that my writing is always original and creatively crafted by me without plagiarism, cutting and pasting, or using AI-generated content.
My team and I are familiar with writing and blogging platforms such as WordPress, Articulate, Weebly, Medium, and Blogger. I can also tailor my writing for SEO, adhering to best practices. This includes the use of Surfer SEO and other SEO writing tools.
Recipe, Blog, Content, Cookbook Editing & Proofreading
I've always prioritized correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation and adhere to the four Cs of editing: clarity, conciseness, coherence, and correctness. I will meticulously edit and proofread not only my own writing projects accomplished for you, but also any editing and proofreading tasks you may have yourself.
While I prefer to personally edit and proofread content, my team is also familiar with editing and proofreading platforms such as Grammarly, ProWritingAid and PerfectIt.