April Preisler

location-pin Auburn, CA

School: Marquette University

Expertise: Recipe Development

April Preisler

  • Almost 10 years developing recipes and writing about food for her blog and Taste of Home

Experience

April is a food writer and photographer who launched her food blog, Food n' Focus, after a trip to Paris in 2011. She ran it from 2012 to 2021, developing recipes, writing about her travels and photographing both. She eventually relocated to Paris, where she told the stories of local chefs and wrote about local markets, foods and products unique to the regions where she traveled. Now, April lives in California with her family and works in marketing and sales. For Taste of Home, she writes about food and develops all kinds of recipes, from healthy pancakes to copycat cookies.

Education

Marquette University, bachelor's in marketing and commercial real estate

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Articles & Recipes

Butter Chicken

Learn how to make butter chicken, a popular Indian dish with a buttery tomato sauce that's packed with garam masala, turmeric and ground cumin.

Copycat Lofthouse Cookies

Lofthouse cookies have been around since 1994 and we're still obsessed. Use this recipe for copycat Lofthouse cookies to make soft, cakey bites of heaven at home!

Madeleines

Are buttery, shell-shaped French madeleines more cookies or cakes? Learn how to make this madeleine cookie recipe and decide for yourself!