Rebecca Lang

Rebecca Lang is a cookbook author, cooking teacher, columnist, and recipe developer based near Atlanta, Georgia.

She has written two cookbooks: Southern Entertaining for a New Generation and Mary Mac’s Tea Room. She also is a contributing editor for myrecipes.com and writes a monthly column for the site called “Girls Night Out.”

Rebecca began her editorial career as an assistant food editor for Oxmoor House, where she edited eight cookbooks and also served as a hand model for technique photographs. She next worked as a freelance project manager and text designer for a small publisher in Atlanta called Looking Glass Books where she handled most aspects of production for 15 books.

Rebecca began her culinary career as an apprentice for well-regarded Atlanta cookbook author and teacher, Nathalie Dupree. She then attended and graduated from Johnson and Wales University.

Rebecca was an assistant food stylist for Home Plate Cooking and was the editor and indexer for Atlanta Cooks at Home. She has also developed recipes for Weight Watchers Annual Recipes for Success 2004 and 2005. Her recipes are included in Christmas with Southern Living 2004 and 2009.

Her television appearances include Home Plate, two episodes of Georgia Living, and Atlanta Live. Fox 42 in Omaha, Nebraska, featured Rebecca in a segment in 2007. She was a guest on the radio show LizTalk on WGAU. Rebecca has appeared numerous times on the nationally-televised show Every Day with Marcus and Lisa.

Rebecca spends a good deal of her time traveling throughout the South as well as the rest of the country teaching cooking.

She is a board member of the Atlanta chapter of Les Dames d’Escoffier and belongs to the International Association of Culinary Professionals, the Southern Foodways Alliance, and Georgia Organics.

Rebecca lives in Athens, Georgia. Her website is www.rebeccalangcooks.com