Adrianne Young

Lake Chelan, WA USA
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Professional Experience

I'm a boots-on-the-ground food, wine, garden and tourism writer who also cooks and farms professionally in Washington wine country. As a chef, I write with an insider's knowledge about dining, food, cooking, winemaking, distilling and organic farming. I've spent many hours behind the scenes of wine dinners in Napa Valley, Seattle and across Washington state. My recipes and articles have been published online and in print for Washington State Wine Guide, Scenic WA, Lake Chelan Grape Growers Association, WINO Magazine.

Expertise

Copywriter
20 Years
Book Author
10 Years
Writer
17 Years

Specialty

Food
10 Years
Home & Garden
5 Years
Travel
10 Years

Industries


Magazine - Local/Regional magazines
10 Years
Marketing (firm) - Small to mid-sized corp. cl
20 Years
Book Publishing Consumer
4 Years

Total Media Industry Experience

20 Years

Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

Destination Media (10+), Scenic WA (10+), WINO Magazine (6-10)

Corporate Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

Tom Douglas Restaurants (3-5), Washington State Wine Commission (3-5), Chelan Grape Growers Association (3-5)

Technical Skills

Wordpress

Computer Skills

Adobe Creative Suite, Numbers, Pages, MS OFFICE, Quickbooks

Equipment

Laptop, digital camera

Showcase

Manuscripts

Created the outline, wrote the manuscript, sourced all the materials featured and art directed the photo shoot for the Pike Place Market's centennial celebration book.
Created, cooked and wrote 22 recipes in 3 days for a joint portfolio piece between a printer, a photographer and a mad man. Art directed table shots as there was no studio time allotted to this project.

Online Writing

A recipe site that features food made and grown on Lake Chelan Farm. Tone is convivial, fact based and instructive.
Snapshots of charming corners in Washington State
An online article for Plank Media covering etiquette at the Korean dinner table. At the Korean dinner table, drinking etiquette is just as important as table manners. There are so many nuances that the challenge wasn't creating content, but conforming it to Plank's 5-Sections, 5-Point structure.

Print

An excerpt from one of the four annual introductions I wrote for the Washington State Wine Guide - a state sponsored publication that wanted to look and sound fun. My content was vital to contrast the tightly phrased articles about wine and wineries in the rest of the guide.