Girls’s Historical past Month is underway, and whereas it’s at all times a welcome, 31-day-long reminder for us to mirror upon exceptional ladies—it simply feels so stuffy and perfunctory, would not it?
So, to have fun this month Food52-style, we’re rebranding it “Girls Are Wonderful Month.” All through March, we’ll be profiling unbelievable, proficient ladies working in two of our favourite fields: meals and design. To kick issues off, we’d wish to level you to the tales of those world-changing ladies. Then, return in time with us as we have fun so most of the feminine colleagues, contributors, and creators who’ve made our cooking (and our lives) immeasurably higher through the years.
Contributors & Colleagues Who Modified the Manner We Cook dinner
Alice Medrich, First Woman of Chocolate
A dwelling baking legend who popularized the chocolate truffle in America, Alice has authored and contributed to over a dozen award-winning cookbooks, and shared numerous baking ideas and recipes with us.
Do this variation on her well-known one-bowl chocolate cake:
Allison Bruns Buford, Food52 Take a look at Kitchen Supervisor
Allison joined Food52 in its early days in 2012, and continues to be the spine of our take a look at kitchen. She makes each recipe shine, together with this killer black-bean burger (her personal).
Amanda Hesser, founding father of Food52
We might not be compiling this checklist have been it not for Amanda Hesser! Past launching this now-famous meals website and curated store from her Brooklyn kitchen, Amanda repeatedly evokes us to transcend the anticipated. Writes former editor Kelly Vaughan (who now develops recipes on the TODAY Present), “[She] taught me that meals and writing are at their greatest once they’re not good—while you acknowledge that errors are as a lot part of cooking as they’re life. You loosen your apron ties, perhaps unintentionally drop a pie crust on the ground, get messy over and over, and have enjoyable with it—that’s the most effective type of relationship a house prepare dinner (or author) can have with their craft.”
Attempt her very enjoyable, by no means fussy fish tacos:
Anna Billingskog, Senior Meals Stylist
Anna makes our recipes look image good for each photoshoot at Food52. These days she’s begun creating extra of her personal recipes, like these Earl Gray-scented buns:
Brinda Ayer, former Director of Content material
Brinda began at Food52 modifying our cookbooks, then rose as much as change into director of all of our content material. She ushered Food52 via the pandemic and edited a few of the website’s most beloved columns, like Desk for One.
Carolina Gelen, former Food52 Resident
Carolina, who hails from Transylvania, creates playful, distinctive recipes that handle to be approachable, too. Who can say no to her Éclair Cake?
Coral Lee, former Food52 podcast producer
A options author, editor, and recipe developer for Food52, Coral additionally led our podcast program and created Play Me a Recipe and Counterjam, to call a number of. She contributed invaluable home-cook how-tos and the considerate collection, The ABCs of Good Meals.
Cristina Sciarra, recipe developer for Ice Cream and Associates
Cristina, an early group member and longtime contributor, got here up with 30 spectacular recipes for our ice cream ebook. You could find her new work at GD Kitchen.
Dorie Greenspan, baker extraordinaire
One other queen of baking, Dorie has graced us with dozens of her foolproof recipes. (We may all use her World Peace Cookies proper now). We’ve additionally finished a few YouTube collection collectively together with Dinner with Dorie and Dorie All Day. Dorie has written numerous cookbooks, a number of of which have change into classics, together with Baking with Julia and Dorie’s Cookies.
Ella Quittner, creator of Absolute Finest Assessments
Equal elements comedic and scientific, the Absolute Finest Assessments collection was Ella’s brainchild. From boxed cake to butter, she painstakingly, hilariously uncovered one of the simplest ways to make nearly all the pieces.
Emily Connor (aka EmilyC), columnist & cookbook writer
Emily gave us numerous scrumptious, reliable weeknight meals via her column, Dinner’s Prepared, and he or she was our salad whisperer for our ebook, Mighty Salads.
Emily Ziemski, former Meals Editor
Emily is aware of her means round a nice substitution (to not point out meals science, astrology, and a recipe Mad Lib). Her Soiled Martini Salad Dressing sparked an edible martini craze, and we’re nonetheless craving her pickle soup.
Emma Laperruque, creator of Huge Little Recipes, cookbook writer, former Meals Editor
A few of our hottest, and best recipes got here from Emma’s award-winning column, Huge Little Recipes, which we collected right into a cookbook of the identical identify. She’s now at Bon Appetit.
Erin Jeanne McDowell, cookbook writer, Food52 Resident, Bake It Up a Notch host
Erin continues to be instructing us to bake issues up a notch in any case these years. She first got here into the Food52 fold as a repeat winner of our early recipe contests, then labored as a meals stylist earlier than changing into our in-house baking knowledgeable. Her pie crust tutorial is required viewing for anybody making an attempt to good their approach.
Gena Hamshaw, recipe developer & cookbook writer
Gena taught us that vegan doesn’t equal boring. Croissants, enchiladas, cream of broccoli soup—nothing is just too creamy or buttery for her plant-based makeovers, collected in our Food52 Vegan cookbook.
Hana Asbrink, author, editor & recipe developer
Hana, now the Deputy Meals Editor at Bon Appetit, helmed our residence and way of life protection, oversaw our My Life at House collection, and was a frequent contributor to our YouTube channel. That is certainly one of her many wonderful recipes:
Kristen Miglore, cookbook writer & Food52 founding editor
The very first individual that Amanda and Merrill Stubbs employed in 2009 was Kristen Miglore, who created the Genius Recipes franchise at Food52. Its premise was easy (and genius, after all): to spotlight the recipes that “get us speaking and alter the way in which we prepare dinner.” Her column introduced culinary luminaries like Rose Levy Beranbaum and Jacques Pépin to the Food52 studio and spawned three New York Occasions bestselling- and James Beard Award-winning books—Genius Recipes, Genius Desserts, and Merely Genius,—in addition to a podcast, The Genius Recipe Tapes, and a YouTube present.
This was her first column:
Lindsay-Jean Arduous, author, recipe developer & former Group Editor
Lindsay-Jean, Food52’s first Group Editor, nurtured conversations and connections on the positioning and taught us methods to maximize each ingredient. She created our Baking Membership and Cookbook Membership, that are nonetheless going robust on Fb (presently led by our moderator, Linsey Sowa), and he or she authored a cookbook herself, Cooking With Scraps, targeted on sustainable cooking. Lindsay-Jean now works at Zingerman’s and co-authored their newest cookbook.
Mandy Lee, Food52 Resident & host of Escapism Cooking
Mandy Lee turned an surprising transfer to Beijing into a chance to indicate us her unbridled ardour for daring cooking methods—like utilizing a blow torch to crisp hen pores and skin.
Merrill Stubbs, co-founder of Food52, now Board Director & Investor
Merrill started Food52 with Amanda and collectively, they co-captained the ship because it grew from a two-person operation to a group of practically 100. Merrill is known for her madcap facet in addition to her present of figuring out simply what individuals will need to prepare dinner.
Millie Peartree, former Food52 Resident
Chef and former restaurateur Millie Peartree introduced her knowledge and scrumptious cooking to her video collection, Behind the Recipe, the place she goes deep on the historical past of conventional Southern dishes.
Nancy, Hotline Whisperer
Our Hotline—the equal of a communal assist middle for menu planning recommendation, recipe solutions and corrections—can be a tragic, uninformative place have been it not for Nancy, a longtime Food52er who has been fielding Hotline questions on a near-daily foundation since she joined the group in 2013. She commonly solves reader conundrums about lacking components, substitutions and methods to feed a crowd on the final minute, and we’re eternally indebted to her enter. (Shoutout to a different VIP in our group, AntoniaJames for reminding us of Nancy’s contributions.)
Nea Arentzen, Recipe Developer & Content material Creator
Nea makes any baking challenge look simple wtih good baking methods that she sprinkles into all of her movies .
Posie Brien, author & recipe developer
Posie developed practically 300 recipes for us, however certainly one of her hottest recipes stays her No-Knead Sourdough, a five-star adaptation of Jim Lahey’s well-known recipe. She’s now a Content material Editor at King Arthur Flour.
Rebecca Firkser, Author, Recipe Developer & Meals Stylist
Rebecca created our price range recipe column, Nickle & Dine, which she’s become a Substack. Among the many many scrumptious recipes she developed is that this well-loved technique for brining turkey:
Samantha Seneviratne, former Food52 Resident
Sam is a gifted author and knowledgeable baker (her newest cookbook, Bake Good, relays all her knowledge). She and her son Artie hosted our YouTube present, Cook dinner and a Half.
Sarah Jampel, recipe developer & former Food52 editor
A proficient author, recipe developer, and meals stylist, Sarah’s recipes and variations are visually putting and air-tight. She’s now the recipe growth and take a look at kitchen supervisor at King Arthur.
Sohla El-Waylly, cookbook writer & Former Food52 Resident
Sohla‘s YouTube collection, Off-Script with Sohla, taught us methods to riff on key cooking methods. She revealed her debut cookbook Begin Right here final yr, and shared certainly one of her good recipes:
Makers, Cooks & Creators We Adore
Marian Bull, ceramist & author
Multi-talent Marian Bull started working for us as a contributor within the very early days. Quickly, we found not solely what a humorous author she was, however that she had an actual knack for making nice lunches at work—and “Not Unhappy Desk Lunch” started. After she left Food52, she began a ceramics enterprise and we later bought her trendy mugs on the positioning. Full circle! Take a look at her website right here.
Noëlle Bittner, Creator of the Food52 Vacation Swap
In 2011, Food52er Noëlle (aka, enbe) urged a easy, food-centered present trade on our Hotline. Our group jumped on the likelihood and a practice was born. She then facilitated the swap yr after yr—no small endeavor for one particular person. In 2018 alone, she made positive 1,107 individuals from 15 nations across the globe took half within the enjoyable. (It was such a feat, The New York Occasions coated it!)
