Coming November 4, 2025
Recipe testing: English edition Naruto Shippuden: The Official Cookbook for Viz Media.
Out now!
Recipe testing and writing collaboration with Tuệ Nguyễn aka @TwayDaBae for Simon Element.
2025 IACP Julia Child First Book Award Finalist
2024 Los Angeles Times - Best Cookbook
2024 New York Times - Best Cookbook
2024 Esquire - Best Cookbook
Out now!
Recipe testing: Justine Cooks: A Cookbook: Recipes (Mostly Plants) for Finding Your Way in the Kitchen with Justine Doiron for Clarkson Potter.
2024 New York Times Bestseller
2024 NPR - Best Cookbook
2024 Food & Wine - Best Cookbook
2024 Washington Post - Best Cookbook
Out now!
Recipe testing: Filipinx: Heritage Recipes From The Diaspora, Angela Dimayuga’s debut cookbook with Ligaya Mishan for Abrams.
2022 Vogue Philippines - Filipino Cookbooks That Celebrate Heritage & Identity
2021 New York Times - Dazzling Cookbooks to Bring to Your Table
Out now!
Recipe development and testing: Watermelon & Red Birds with Nicole Taylor for Simon & Schuster.
2022 Ebony - Must Have Cookbook
Smithsonian - Best Cookbooks About Food in 2022
Out now!
Recipe contribution: Sheet Pan Chicken Tinola with Cathy Erway for Ten Speed Press.
I am an avid cookbook collaborator! I keep a large collection of cooking equipment and pantry items to test recipes efficiently (and quickly). Read about it on Food52.
I’m open to working with chefs, restaurants, and media properties on cookbook production, co-writing, testing, cross-testing, development, and food styling.
For recipe styling, testing, & development: randwiches@gmail.com
For co-writing inquiries: David Black Agency c/o Rica Allanic, Rallannic@dblackagency.com
Coming October 28, 2025
Recipe testing: English edition Castle in the Sky: The Official Cookbook for Viz Media and Studio Ghibli.
Out now!
Recipe testing: The Four Horsemen: Food+Wine for Good Times with Nick Curtola and Gabe Ulla for Abrams.
2025 IACP Chefs & Restaurants Finalist
2024 Tasting Table - Best Cookbook
2024 Serious Eats - Best Cookbook
2024 Robb Report - Best Cookbook
In Development
Upcoming cookbook about steak.
Out now!
Recipe testing: Hardcover English edition Onigiri: Japanese Rice Balls Made Easy! by Ai Watanabe and Samuel Trifot for Viz Media.
Out now!
Recipe testing: A recipe from Nicole Taylor’s debut cookbook for Countryman Press.
Coming April 22, 2025
Recipe testing: English edition My Neighbor Totoro: The Official Cookbook for Viz Media and Studio Ghibli.
Out now!
Recipe development and collaboration: ISLAS with Von Diaz for Chronicle.
2025 IACP International Cookbook Finalist
2024 Esquire - Best Cookbook
2024 Food & Wine - Best Cookbook
2024 Bon Appetit - Best Cookbook
In Development
Upcoming cookbook about salsa.
Out now!
Recipe tested: hardcover English edtiion of One Piece: Pirate Recipes by Sanji for Viz Media.
Out now!
Recipe development and testing: The Last OG Cookbook: How to Get Mad Culinary Skills by Nicole Taylor for TBS / Houghton Mifflin-Harcourt.
Out now!
100 recipes from 8 years of cooking competitions developed, written, and styled for Page Street/MacMillan.