Cookbook author, culinary dietitian, and cookbook writing coach Maggie Green is the founder and owner of The Green Apron Company. As a professionally trained chef and Registered and Licensed Dietitian, Green is a sought-after culinary nutrition expert, food and nutrition writer, recipe developer, and cookbook industry consultant. Following a career in clinical dietetics and food service management, Green started The Green Apron Company serving over 100 clients in the greater Cincinnati area as a personal chef/dietitian. Green then transitioned her work as a cookbook editor and editorial liaison for the Joy of Cooking Trust editing the 75th Anniversary edition of the Joy of Cooking as well as other trade cookbooks. Now Green spends her time writing cookbooks, coaching cookbook writers, teaching about recipe writing and cookbook development, and interviewing cookbook writers and other guests for her popular podcast Cookbook Love.
As a cookbook author, Green wrote her first cookbook, The Kentucky Fresh Cookbook, in 2011. Published by University Press of Kentucky, she explores in Kentucky Fresh seasonal cooking and regional foods of Kentucky. In 2016, Green wrote her second cookbook, Tasting Kentucky: Favorite Recipes from the Bluegrass State. Tasting Kentucky showcases 100 recipes from restaurants and inns all across the state of Kentucky. Green’s third and fourth cookbooks, Essential Pantry and Essential Plant-Based Pantry, published in September 2018, set out to change the way a home-cook thinks and feels about cooking as they streamline their pantry and simplify their meals. Green is the host of Cookbook Love Podcast with over 300 episodes that celebrates cookbook readers, buyers, collectors, writers and clubs.
Green coaches cookbook writers who dream of writing and publishing a cookbook. She offers two group programs for cookbook writers: one program focused on traditional publishing and the other on publishing recipes and stories in a book on Amazon.
Green lives in Ft. Wright, Kentucky with her husband, Warren. They have three adult children, and a black furry cat named Virgil. In her spare time she enjoys reading, journaling, regional travel in the US, watching sports including the University of Kentucky Wildcats, creating recipes for her next cookbook, and sharing meals with family and friends.