UK cooking, gardening, and lifestyle publisher Kyle Cathie has hired Anja Schmidt to helm Kyle Books–the company’s cookbook imprint in the United States.
Before taking the publisher spot, Schmidt had served as executive editor at DK, publishing cookbooks like the James Beard Award-nominee “Morimoto” and Nick Malgieri’s “The Modern Baker.” Schmidt had also worked at Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins.
Here’s more from the release: “Kyle Books’ stable of authors includes “Richard Bertinet, whose first book DOUGH was the winner of the IACP Best Cookbook of the Year and a James Beard Foundation Award; Allegra McEvedy, winner of an IACP Award in the Chefs and Restaurants category; and Camellia Panjabi, author of the million+ selling 50 GREAT CURRIES OF INDIA.”