Caroline Lange

Title: Writer

Location: Brooklyn, NY

Education: Barnard College of Columbia University

Expertise: General recipe testing and development, Vegetarian food

Caroline Lange (she/her) has worked in many corners of food media over the past 10 years, including as a writer, editor, recipe tester and developer, food stylist, cookbook contributor, and private chef.

Experience

Caroline is a home cook first and foremost, and always keeps home cooks in mind when testing recipes or products: Is a product well-made, and will it last through years of use (and if so, is it worth the price tag)? Is it multifunctional? How much space does it take up? Is it easy or intuitive to use? Is it accessible to many kinds of home cooks?

Highlights

Caroline has tested the recipes for acclaimed and award-winning cookbooks such as Italian American (2021), My Shanghai (2021), and My America (2022). She has also worked as a freelance recipe tester for a variety of publications, including the New York Times.
Caroline spent years as a private chef in other people's kitchens, assessing which kitchen tools were essential (or fussy, hard to clean, or overblown). She keeps her own kitchen lean and mean.
She's also tested many products for a variety of publications like Epicurious and the Wall Street Journal, including stand mixers, cake pans, toaster ovens, boxes of chocolate and, to the dismay of her neighbors, blenders.

Education

She earned a B.A. in English (Creative Writing) from Barnard College of Columbia University in 2015.

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