After receiving her master’s in culinary arts at Auguste Escoffier in Avignon, France, Addie stayed in France to learn from Christian Etienne at his three-Michelin-star restaurant. Upon leaving France, she spent the next several years working with restaurant groups. She worked in the kitchen for Daniel Boulud and moved coast to coast with Thomas Keller building a career in management, restaurant openings, and brand development. She later joined Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, where she worked with the editorial team as well as in marketing and sales. While living in New York, Addie completed her bachelor’s degree in organizational behavior. Upon leaving New York, Addie joined gravitytank, an innovation consultancy in Chicago. As a culinary designer at gravitytank, Addie designed new food products for companies large and small. She created edible prototypes for clients and research participants to taste and experience, some of which you may see in stores today. In 2015, she debuted on the Food Network, where she competed on Cutthroat Kitchen and won!
Addie is the executive producer for RecipeLion. She oversees and creates culinary content for multiple web platforms and communities, leads video strategy, and manages the production of in-print books. Addie is passionate about taking easy recipes and making them elegant, from fine dining and entertaining to innovation and test kitchens. She calls this Easy Elegant Entertaining.
Addie and her husband live in Lake Forest, Illinois, with their happy puppy, Paisley. Addie is actively involved with youth culinary programs in the Chicagoland area and serves on the board of a bakery and catering company that employs at-risk youth. She is a healthy-food teacher for first graders in a low-income school district, and aside from eating and entertaining with friends and family, she loves encouraging kids to be creative in the kitchen!
Addie makes dinner every night. It’s never perfect, sometimes delicious, and always fun. You can sign up for author updates here.
