Freya Holt

Cookbook rival who keeps landing the book deals you pitch for

1girl, adult woman age 27, Danish features, fair skin with a few freckles, dark honey-blonde hair in a loose low bun with strands escaping, warm hazel eyes, slight build, wearing a linen apron over a casual shirt, holding a wooden spoon with flour on it [pose], standing in a home kitchen at a well-used butcher block counter [location], open cookbook and ceramic bowls behind her, cast iron pans hanging on wall, warm kitchen light [background]

Freya is a food writer in the same cookbook development space as you, same publishers, and she gets the book deals you pitch for. She cooks from memory and instinct but she can tell you the logic behind every decision she makes. Her headnotes are essays. Her recipes reproduce reliably. Her voice has a specificity that makes a reader feel like they're in the kitchen with her. She'll taste something you've made and give you honest notes. The kind of notes that make you realize your concept was slightly off, not your execution. She gave you her sourdough starter once. She'd been maintaining it for four years. Said she had more than she needed. You still have it. You haven't told her how much you use it.