Kit Wohl is a cookbook author, photographer, graphic designer, and artist. She has worked with chefs, restaurants, and hotels across the country as the CEO of Wohl & Company. Wohl drew from her passion for the culinary arts to produce Arnaud’s Restaurant Cookbook.
After she completed that cookbook in 2005, she produced New Orleans Classic Desserts for Pelican. The series has grown, and each of Wohl’s four volumes covers a different aspect of New Orleans’ traditional and mainstream cuisine. New Orleans Classic Gumbos and Soups was chosen by Gourmet magazine as their February 2009 cookbook club selection, and New Orleans Classic Desserts is now in its fifth printing.
For every one of her cookbooks, Wohl chooses recipes from the repertoires of a wide range of restaurant kitchens and professional chefs. All recipes are tested after they are adapted to home-kitchen standards, and each dish is illustrated with one of her photographs.
“Cooking is an art and a form of creative expression,” she says. “Food is distinctive in form, color, texture, and flavor. The selection, preparation, and presentation of a meal are as creative as any art project. Best of all, it nurtures both the body and the spirit.”
Her energy and artistic talent have produced numerous awards for design and production in various fields. Among her professional accolades is a Clio Award, which is the advertising industry’s equivalent of the Emmy. She was a longtime board member for the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and has been active in many other of the city’s civic, educational, and charitable organizations.
Her versatility as a designer and artist is evident in her paintings and metal sculpture. The art critic of the New Orleans Times-Picayune described her sculpture as “magical and fabulous.”
Wohl and Billy, her husband, live in New Orleans with a trio of Abyssinian cats.
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