Jennifer Lindner McGlinn

Biography

Jennifer Lindner McGlinn is a trained pastry chef, food writer, author, and historian and is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, the Culinary Institute of America, and the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture. She has worked as executive editor of professional chefs’ magazine Art Culinaire, as well as in the curatorial departments at Winterthur Museum & Country Estate, Rosenbach Museum and Library, and Valley Forge National Historic Park. A former pastry chef, she specializes in designing one-of-a-kind wedding cakes, cookies, and desserts for private and corporate clients, including Lilly Pulitzer. She also prepares eighteenth- and nineteenth-century-inspired confections, occasionally catering events at historic sites around Philadelphia. Mrs. McGlinn has coauthored several chef books, including The City Tavern Baking & Dessert Cookbook (Running Press 2003), Black Forest Cuisine (Running Press 2006), and Delilah’s Everyday Soul (Running Press 2006). She has also edited recipes for and contributed to Dining at Monticello (Thomas Jefferson Foundation 2005), Winterthur Museum’s community cookbook, Recipes from Winterthur (fall 2007), and she is consulting on The Greenbrier Resort’s cookbook, Peter Timmin’s Greenbrier (fall 2009). Mrs. McGlinn’s latest cookbook, Gingerbread, published by Chronicle Books, will be available in the fall of 2009. She regularly contributes food and entertaining articles to Delaware’s Signature Brandywine Magazine and Hunt Magazine. She is active in DAR and the Philadelphia chapter of Les Dames d’Escoffier and lives and works in Haverford, Pennsylvania.