Associate Editor, Food & Wine

Associate Editor, Food & Wine Food & Wine is looking for an Associate Editor to join our Food team. This editor will help create the recipes, cooking stories, product tests, trend pieces, social videos, and service‑driven food coverage that define Food & Wine across print, digital, social, and video.
We’re looking for a skilled cook, sharp writer, and detail‑oriented editor who can move easily between the kitchen and the page. The ideal candidate understands how to make recipes clear, accurate, and inspiring; how to translate cooking expertise into approachable service journalism; and how to shape food stories for audiences across platforms, including text and video. They should be as comfortable writing a precise recipe headnote as they are pitching a smart supermarket taste test, developing a timely cooking explainer, or helping turn a recipe into a social‑first experience.
In this role, you’ll brainstorm, research, report, write, edit, and package content for Food & Wine. You’ll work closely with editors, the test kitchen, photo and video teams, social teams, recipe developers, contributors, chefs, and other partners to bring food stories and recipes from idea to publication. You’ll help maintain Food & Wine’s high standards for accuracy, clarity, authority, and visual storytelling while also thinking creatively about how our food content travels across various platforms.
Location & Schedule Hybrid, 3x a week in Birmingham (Birmingham, TN). You can work remotely up to 2 days per week.
Responsibilities Pitch, report, write, and edit food stories, recipes, headnotes, cooking explainers, product tests, and trend pieces (30% of time).
Shepherd recipe, taste test, cooking technique, and food explainer videos from conception to publication, including pitching concepts, shaping editorial angles, writing scripts or talking points, preparing production notes, reviewing cuts, and ensuring final assets meet Food & Wine’s standards (30% of time).
Collaborate with photo, art, video, social, and editorial teams to package food content across print, digital, newsletter, and social platforms; track recipe, story, photo, and production schedules; manage the story pipeline and ensure on‑time delivery (30% of time).
Communicate with editors, test kitchen staff, studio teams, chefs, contributors, vendors, and PR contacts; represent Food & Wine at events, tastings, and press opportunities as needed (10% of time).
Minimum Qualifications Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
Experience: 2–4 years of relevant experience in food media, digital publishing, magazines, recipe development, test kitchens, restaurants, culinary production, or equivalent.
Experience editing recipes, recipe headnotes, service journalism, or food features is a bonus.
Experience developing or supporting food video content for social, digital, or editorial platforms; collaborating with producers, editors, culinary teams, and on‑camera talent; and appearing on camera.
Key Skills & Abilities Strong cooking skills and deep curiosity about food, recipes, ingredients, techniques, restaurants, trends, cultures, and cuisines.
Excellent writing, editing, reporting, and communication skills.
Organizational wizardry: ability to use project‑management software (Airtable, Asana, Jira, Monday, etc.) to track assignments and shepherd them to completion.
Comfort with social video, on‑camera work, content management systems, and web analytics.
Additional Information Travel required: 5% (approximate).
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