Lily Greenall - The Takeout

Location

Scotland, UK

School

University Of Aberdeen

Expertise

Hospitality, Home Cooking, Fine Dining

Lily worked in catering until 2018, giving her behind-the-scenes insight into the way that kitchens and food service industries operate.
She has a passionate interest in home cooking and has written recipe blogs for a number of lifestyle brands.
Lily is fascinated by world cuisines, watches every vlog that food and travel YouTuber Mark Wiens puts out, and plans her restaurant itinerary first when organizing a trip.

Experience

Lily has been a professional content writer and editor since 2018 and has written for numerous websites and clients specializing in food and hospitality. She joined the Foodie team as a features writer in late 2023. In 2024, she became an editor at Static Media for The Takeout News. Lily was named runner-up in the Lewis Grassic Gibbon Centre Literary Lights Prize for Creative Writing in 2017.

Education

Lily has a Ph.D. in English and creative writing from the University of Aberdeen.

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