Culinary Editor | Recipe Developer | Food Stylist | Cookbook Author

Monya is a trained chef who focuses on recipe development, testing, food styling (and more recently, prop styling.) Before starting Soigné Consulting (the name she trades under), she worked as Culinary Editor at Le Cordon Bleu.

Prior to that, she worked for 3.5 years at Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck Experimental Kitchen – where her role lay first in development and styling, and then evolved into a recipe editing and project management role. Monya continues to work as a consultant to Heston’s fabulous team at The Fat Duck Group on many exciting projects. Monya’s strong interest in ingredients and dietary requirements coupled with her arsenal of skills gained over the years has allowed her to offer more to her clients in terms of content.

As a hobby, Monya creates original low carb & keto recipes for her blog: Fats of Life® (voted one of the top 8 culinary blogs in 2019, UK BLOG AWARDS, 2019). She is also the author of two cookbooks Keto Kitchen (2020) and Lazy Keto Kitchen (2021) – both published by KYLE BOOKS in London.