Meet Janice
Recipe Developer
Recipe Tester
Food Photographer
Food Stylist
Project Manager
Baker
Photo of Janice by Emilie Iggiotti.
Janice Lawandi is a food writer, food stylist, and science consultant who loves to bake. With a decade of experience, Janice creates recipes and photography for brands, and also helps her clients answer customer questions relating to food science and their products.
Through her website bakeschool.com, Janice not only shares recipes, but also deep dives into baking ingredients, techniques, and tips and tricks, while relating baking concepts to science so that readers can better understand the how’s and why’s of baking, with the goal of giving readers the knowledge to troubleshoot and adapt recipes.
Janice completed a PhD in Chemistry from McGill University in 2010 and a Pâtisserie de Base certificate from Le Cordon Bleu Ottawa in 2012. Janice was awarded Taste Canada Silver for Best Food Blog in 2017 and has worked for many major brands like Lindt Canada, Food Network Canada, Egg Farmers of Canada, and Les Producteurs de Lait du Québec, among others. Her work has appeared on the pages of magazines like Ricardo magazine (Quebec) and Sweet Dreams (Germany), and even on billboards in Montreal metro stations and at Quebec festivals.
Janice likes to develop recipes and also to dissect recipes to figure out what makes them better and what makes them worse.
Janice helps her clients create the absolute best recipes for their websites, their products, and their cookbooks.