Ashley M. Jacobs

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Location
Maryland
School
Northeastern University, New York University, Cambridge School of Culinary Arts
Expertise
Cookbooks, Cooking tips, Middle Eastern cuisine
  • Ashley collects new and vintage cookbooks. She owns more than 100 and is working her way through a personal project to make one recipe from each.
  • She has interviewed several cookbook authors, including Jake Cohen, Paula Shoyer, and Lior Lev Sercarz.
  • She has won four national awards for her work in media.

Experience

Ashley comes from a long line of distinguished culinarians with Egyptian and Eastern European roots. She discovered her love of food at an early age while cooking and baking alongside her family. To this day, nothing brings her more joy. Ashley works full time in publishing as a production editor at NASW Press. She's also a freelance writer, editor, and marketer with more than 12 years of experience, including in food content. She started writing for Static Media in June 2025, contributing to Foodie and The Takeout. Ashley loves researching and reporting on several obscure food facts and is always on the lookout for her next baking challenge (preferably involving chocolate).

Education

Ashley holds a bachelor's degree in English from Northeastern University and a certificate in professional copyediting, proofreading, and fact-checking from New York University. She has also taken several recreational classes at the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts.

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