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Our Business
Our Team
Amy Snider-Whitson
Sabrina Falone
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Our Business
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The Test Kitchen Incorporated is a boutique consultancy firm that specializes in recipe development and food writing. Our core team is small and has been consciously assembled to include people with skill sets that synergize to provide a unique and credible offering. In addition to our core team, we bring in experts on a freelance basis when specific skills are required to complete a special project. Many of our core and extended team members have written books and articles in their area of expertise.
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Our Team
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Amy Snider-Whitson PHEc. | President
 With a degree in food and nutrition and field experience as a professional home economist, Amy Snider-Whitson is a proven recipe developer and culinary nutrition consultant. After 10 years collaborating with Dana McCauley, Amy is excited to head a team of skilled home economists and chefs under our new banner, The Test Kitchen Incorporated. Creativity, consistency and quality are a priority for Amy. Snider-Whitson values a team approach to the recipe practice, which provides a quality of service that made Dana McCauley & Associates Ltd. a preferred supplier for food companies, PR firms and marketing agencies.
For the last several years, Amy has overseen the recipe development practice and all test kitchen activity. Under Amy's guidance, the team has developed hundreds of recipes for our corporate food clients as well as providing a range of supportive services.
Snider-Whitson has also provided professional nutrient analysis services for clients to pilot recipe development and marketing initiatives. After years of working with a variety of data base programs, analyzing thousands of recipes, Amy is very comfortable working within both CFIA and USDA guidelines.
Amy’s health and nutrition knowledge and excellent recipe writing skills are showcased in her first cookbook, Fiber Boost, Everyday Cooking for a Long Healthy Life (Key Porter), which was published in 2004. An accomplished spokesperson, Amy has appeared on media outlets across Canada including Breakfast Television programs in Toronto, Calgary and Winnipeg, CH11 Morning, CKCO Noon News, Global Morning News in Toronto and Calgary and several Roger's Daytime programs across Ontario.
Amy is dedicated to her field and is currently President of the Ontario Home Economics Association. Amy has a passion for all aspects of food and nutrition and is excited to start this new chapter in her career.
Sabrina Falone | Test Kitchen Manager
 As a professionally trained chef; with much experience in both the food service and food writing industries, Sabrina Falone is well suited to her job as our Test Kitchen Manager and Resident Chef. Her approach is always thorough, accurate and creative. After graduating from Liaison College of Culinary Arts (Brampton Campus), Sabrina then augmented her studies with the food writing course at George Brown College.
From ideation, product development, recipe testing, writing, editing and client relations to supervising the production of taste test samples for our company's numerous clients, Sabrina is intimately involved in every facet of our recipe and product development projects. During her 5 years as a core member of our team Sabrina has worked on projects for Gay Lea Foods, Clover Leaf Seafood, McCain's, High Liner, and H.J. Heinz.
She also teaches cooking classes at the LCBO, as well as Upstairs at Loblaws and, when time permits, is foodstyling for television and print advertising.
Sabrina has appeared on Rogers York Region to share her passion for honey with consumers. She is also in the process of writing her first cookbook on the very subject and will be launching her Deliciously Sticky Honey blog Spring 2010.
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