Company description

Christopher Kimball's Milk Street, a multi-platform food media company, is seeking an experienced recipe editor to work in its downtown Boston office.

Job description

Christopher Kimball's Milk Street, a multi-platform food media company, is seeking an experienced recipe editor to work in its downtown Boston office.

The recipe editor provides quality control on all recipes. The editor acts as a liaison between the company’s editorial and culinary teams to ensure recipes are accurately and clearly written, and are consistent with the Milk Street mission and philosophy.

Responsibilities include:

• Test and edit recipes as they are submitted by developers, ensuring they meet Milk Street guidelines and conform to company recipe style
• Work with the food editor and editorial director to guide recipes through the development, testing, editing and photographing processes
• Oversee testing of all recipes by the Milk Street test kitchen, as well as a team of outside home recipe testers
• Coordinate with recipe developers and test kitchen staff—and consulting with food editor and editorial director—to troubleshoot recipes
• Consult with editorial teams—including print, television, radio, web, social media and culinary education—to help shape and write multi-format stories

Qualifications:

This full-time, onsite position requires:

• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in a commercial or editorial test kitchen
• Culinary degree or equivalent culinary experience
• At least five years’ experience in an editorial environment, with responsibilities that included both writing and editing
• Experience working across media formats and with both remote and in-house staff
• Proficient with Internet research as well as common Mac software, including Office

Milk Street is devoted to changing how people cook by searching the world for bold, simple recipes and techniques that are adapted and tested for home cooks everywhere. The company produces Christopher Kimball's Milk Street Magazine, as well as Christopher Kimball’s television and radio shows. For more information, go to 177MilkStreet.com.

Compensation

this position is: contract

Application instructions

Deadline

no deadline