Hi, I’m Jenn! I’m in the Foodess kitchen making a spectacular mess and making something delicious, in roughly equal parts. Join me!

I live in Vancouver, Canada, with my hungry husband, our two little cupcakes, Theo and Everett, plus a floppy-eared Irish Setter (who almost makes up in cuteness what he lacks in brains).

I grew up on the Canadian North-Atlantic, where regular “maritime kitchen parties” filled my heart and belly: friends and family laughing and talking loudly as everyone gathers cozily around the steaming pots. Totally casual, no pretenses, often no invitation, and typically what was served was what my mom calls “lucky pot dinner” (you’re lucky there’s something in the pot). All the warmth and come-as-you-are homey-ness you could hope for.

On Foodess, expect globally-inspired comfort-food and baking recipes, lots of pictures, plenty of opinionated ingredient and cooking tips, as well as stories from my own kitchen, life and travels. I like to think of this little nook of the internet as my own kitchen party – a warm, happy, noisy gathering place to share life over good food. I really hope you see it that way, too. I’m so honoured that you bring my recipes into your kitchens to feed your loved ones.

I have a background in food science and nutrition, and started Foodess as a creative outlet during a particularly heavy part of my degree. Food labs and chemistry textbooks were sanitizing my reasons for choosing a culinary path in the first place: a love of feeding people and a life spent obsessing about what I could eat next.

I began my cooking career with a job developing recipes in a test kitchen and providing technical baking support to bakeries and home bakers for a flour company. Want to know why your bread didn’t rise? I got your back.

I now work full time as a blogger, with a side of freelance food photography, recipe development and food writing. (And, of course, a lot of momming to my sweet boys.)

Want to work together?

I offer freelance food photography, recipe creating, food writing and more, and am open to meaningful collaborations with the right brands for sponsored posts.

Check out my services page, or just pop a hello in my inbox at jennifer {at} foodess {dot} com! (Spelled out to thwart evil spam bots – clickable email link via my instagram profile.)

Foodess in the press

Foodess was a finalist in Saveur Magazine’s 2013 Best Food Blog Awards in the Best Original Recipes category; was named one of the Huffington Post’s “Top Ten Food Bloggers” and “Best Health Tweeters“; one of Today’s Parent Magazine’s “24 most awesome parents on social media“; was nominated for “Best Weblog About Food & Drink” in the 2013 and 2012 Canadian Weblog awards; the “Best of Vancouver” Food Blogs in 2011; and was featured on Fine Cooking magazine’s “Best of the Blogs” and Saveur magazine’s “Best of the Web”.

Jennifer’s voice, recipes, writing and/or photography have been featured in print in Bon Appetit, Flare, Chatelaine, Alive, National Geographic Traveler, Readers Digest, Fresh Juice, and Best Health magazines; in the Bakers Journal Recipe Collection; Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper; and in Vancouver’s The Province, 24 Hour, Georgia Straight and WestEnder newspapers. Online, she has been featured on Food Network, Apartment Therapy, Gourmet, Fine Cooking, Jamie Oliver, Better Homes and Gardens, Ladies’ Home Journal, SHAPE, Saveur, Zeit.de, Blogher.com, Gojee.com, Huffington Post, Yahoo! Shine blog, Buzzfeed, Mayo Clinic and Aritzia websites among others.

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