Adrianne Young

Lake Chelan, WA USA
20 Years Experience

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 YearsBook Author 10 YearsWriter 17 Years

Specialty

Food 10 YearsHome & Garden 5 YearsTravel 10 Years

Industries

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

Manuscripts

100 Years in the Market
(Sasquatch Publishing 12/1/2007)
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.
3 Feasts
(3 Feasts 5/1/2007)
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

Recipes and Content A Plot to Eat
(Young Cannella, LLC 12/16/2015)
A recipe site that features food made and grown on Lake Chelan Farm. Tone is convivial, fact based and instructive.
Travel Articles
(ScenicWA 10/14/2014)
Snapshots of charming corners in Washington State
Korean Table Etiquette Article
(Plank Media 12/6/2015)
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

Washington Wine Guide Intro Article (Excerpt)
(Washington State Wine Guide 12/1/2012)
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.