Culinary Editor | Recipe Developer | Food Stylist | Cookbook Author
Monya is a trained chef who focuses on recipe development, recipe testing and food 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.
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SOIGNÉ CONSULTING
Soigné Consulting is the name I trade under. I spend half my time in Bray, having rejoined the Fat Duck Group as consultant Content Editor and recipe writer, and the remainder of my time nurturing my creative side by developing original recipes + visuals for clients all over the world.
Fats of Life
Probably the 7,346,719th food blog on the internet, "Fats of Life" is my personal recipe blog. It showcases original recipes developed for the Keto / Low-carb lifestyle community - which is the way of eating I am a passionate ambassador of...
GETTING MY HANDS DIRTY...
Aaaah, painting... that which captures the other half of my heart. I rarely get a chance to paint much these days, but do visit my website and drop me a line of encouragement to unpack my oils, canvasses and turpentine more often.
