Rochelle Bilow

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Vivian Cromwell
Title: Editor
Location: Stowe, Vermont
Education: Le Moyne College, The French Culinary Institute

Rochelle Bilow is an editor for Serious Eats. Based in northern Vermont, Rochelle specializes in stories about home cooking, techniques, tools, and equipment. She has been writing about food professionally for over a decade, and testing kitchen equipment since 2021.

Highlights:

  • Rochelle attended The French Culinary Institute in 2009 and 2010.
  • She worked as a line cook, a catering prep cook, and a baker before finding her way to magazine and digital food journalism.
  • Rochelle worked as a cook on a small organic farm in Upstate New York.
  • She was an editor and social media manager for Bon Appétit and Cooking Light Magazines.
  • She is based in Vermont and is an ultra-trail runner.

Experience

Rochelle is an editor for Serious Eats. After attending culinary school and working as a professional cook, Rochelle honed her digital journalism skills at Bon Appétit magazine. Originally hired as the web staff writer, Rochelle advanced to an associate editor then senior editor before taking on the role of social media manager. From there, Rochelle took on the role of social media manager at Cooking Light; she was promoted to social media director before spending a handful of years writing and editing.

Rochelle began writing for Serious Eats in 2022, where she wrote articles and reviews. She joined the team full-time in February 2024.

Education

Rochelle holds a B.A. in Communications from Le Moyne College, as well as a Grande Diplome in Classic Culinary Arts from the French Culinary Institute (now a part of the Institute of Culinary Education).

About Serious Eats

Serious Eats, a Dotdash brand, is an award-winning food and drink website visited by over 7 million hungry readers every month. Our audience comes to us for rigorously tested recipes, science-driven cooking techniques, robust equipment reviews, and stories that offer cultural and historical context to the foods we love to eat.

Dotdash is among the largest and fastest growing publishers online, and has won over 50 awards in the last year alone, including Digiday's 2020 Publisher of the Year. Dotdash brands include Verywell, Investopedia, The Balance, The Spruce, Simply Recipes, Serious Eats, Byrdie, Brides, MyDomaine, Lifewire, TripSavvy, Liquor.com, and TreeHugger.

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