Does Stephanie Izard, the chef behind successful Fulton Market restaurants Girl & the Goat, Little Goat and Duck Duck Goat, have plans to be the Midwest’s Gwyneth Paltrow?
Per two recently posted job listings, the chef appears to be launching a magazine. Stephanie Izard Inc. is hiring an online editor for a “new travel, food and lifestyle magazine,” as well as a sales manager responsible for selling multiple products in both the consumer packaged goods industry and for a “soon to be launched magazine.”
The job listings are both intriguingly brief, but the editor job description hints at a sizeable operation, calling for multiple writers for the magazine’s “online component,” which would hint at a print or experiential product (maybe events, seminars and parties), as well. Izard’s publicist would not add details.
Izard—a member of Crain’s 40 Under 40 class of 2010—is perhaps better poised than most chefs to make the leap into a lifestyle brand, though publishing is a precarious business these days. Her on-camera abilities are well established, having made her the first woman to win Bravo’s Top Chef reality TV competition.
And she’s one of the few chefs people might actually want to emulate. In an industry dominated by bellicose men, seeing a by-all-accounts likable local success gain a bigger national profile would be nice.
[Source:-Crains]
