The new editor of the NZ Guild of Food Writers’ online newsletter Pen & Palate, Renee Lang combines two passions – publishing and cooking.
She succeeds former editor Jill Brewis who leaves the position to devote more time to other writing and family commitments.
A long-time member of the Guild, Renee Lang began her career in publishing in the late 1970s after training as a teacher in Wellington and then completing her OE.
A love of cooking fostered by her Dutch mother who celebrated the foods of a Dutch East Indies generation, her career has been closely allied to food. Among her proudest achievements she lists a six-year stint as publishing manager at New Holland Publishers (NZ) where she was responsible for building a local publishing programme from the ground up.
During her time in this role she published a number of award-winning books including Beach Bach Boat Barbecue (and others by Penny Oliver), Take a Vine-Ripened Tomato (and others by Julie Biuso) and The Modern Cook and Eat (Ray McVinnie).
Currently she does “a satisfying amount of freelance book editing work, a little publishing (including Richard Till’s bestselling Kiwi Kitchen based on his popular television series), some book packaging and some writing”.
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