Author · Portland, Oregon
Culinary consultant and technical writer
Reid Lund writes cookbooks for the kitchen a person actually owns. After years in professional kitchens in Chicago and the Pacific Northwest, he turned to the gap between high-end appliances and the way people cook at home.
The Miele books began with a stack of metric manuals and the suspicion that most owners were using a fraction of the oven. He spent two years turning those modes — AutoRoast through Menu Cooking — into a Fahrenheit system, and tested more than 120 recipes against the interface. The same idea runs through the Yoder book and the GLP-1 book: name the constraint, then write to it.
MQ 06
Finally, recipes written for how we actually cook.
Exact mode names, precise oven settings, and accessible ingredients for the Miele DGC series, including XL and XXL. No translation guide required. The technology is there to serve the cook.
Paperback · 254 pages
MQ 05
Recipes built around what the YS480 and YS640 actually do.
Not a generic pellet-grill book. Every recipe names the setup — traditional smoking, two-zone, grilling, or direct flame — plus the ACS program, damper position, and shelf.
Paperback · 218 pages · 75 recipes
MQ 04
Meals sized for the appetite you have now.
Sixty high-protein, low-carb recipes in smaller portions, plus a 30-day meal plan, weekly shopping lists, and swaps for low-energy days. Written to protect muscle and keep meals realistic when hunger changes.
Paperback · 186 pages