Ladies’s Historical past Month is underway, and whereas it’s at all times a welcome, 31-day-long reminder for us to mirror upon outstanding ladies—it simply feels so stuffy and perfunctory, would not it?
So, to have fun this month Food52-style, we’re rebranding it “Ladies Are Superb Month.” All through March, we’ll be profiling unbelievable, gifted 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 women. Then, return in time with us as we have fun so lots of the feminine colleagues, contributors, and creators who’ve made our cooking (and our lives) immeasurably higher over time.
Contributors & Colleagues Who Modified the Method 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 suggestions 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 listing had been it not for Amanda Hesser! Past launching this now-famous meals web site and curated store from her Brooklyn kitchen, Amanda constantly 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 finest after they’re not good—if you acknowledge that errors are as a lot part of cooking as they’re life. You loosen your apron ties, possibly by accident drop a pie crust on the ground, get messy over and over, and have enjoyable with it—that’s one of the best sort of relationship a house cook dinner (or author) can have with their craft.”
Strive her very enjoyable, under no circumstances fussy fish tacos:
Anna Billingskog, Senior Meals Stylist
Anna makes our recipes look image good for each photoshoot at Food52. Currently 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 enhancing 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 number of the web site’s most beloved columns, like Table 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 couple of. She contributed invaluable home-cook how-tos and the considerate sequence, The ABCs of Good Food.
Cristina Sciarra, recipe developer for Ice Cream and Buddies
Cristina, an early group member and longtime contributor, got here up with 30 spectacular recipes for our ice cream book. You will discover 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 might all use her World Peace Cookies proper now). We’ve additionally finished a few YouTube sequence collectively together with Dinner with Dorie and Dorie All Day. Dorie has written numerous cookbooks, a couple of of which have change into classics, together with Baking with Julia and Dorie’s Cookies.
Ella Quittner, creator of Absolute Greatest Checks
Equal components comedic and scientific, the Absolute Best Tests sequence was Ella’s brainchild. From boxed cake to butter, she painstakingly, hilariously uncovered the easiest way to make nearly every thing.
Emily Connor (aka EmilyC), columnist & cookbook creator
Emily gave us numerous scrumptious, reliable weeknight meals via her column, Dinner’s Ready, and he or she was our salad whisperer for our ebook, Mighty Salads.
Emily Ziemski, former Meals Editor
Emily is aware of her method round a great substitution (to not point out food science, astrology, and a recipe Mad Lib). Her Dirty Martini Salad Dressing sparked an edible martini craze, and we’re nonetheless craving her pickle soup.
Emma Laperruque, creator of Massive Little Recipes, cookbook creator, former Meals Editor
A few of our hottest, and best recipes got here from Emma’s award-winning column, Big Little Recipes, which we collected right into a cookbook of the identical identify. She’s now at Bon Appetit.
Erin Jeanne McDowell, cookbook creator, Food52 Resident, Bake It Up a Notch host
Erin continues to be educating 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 turning into our in-house baking knowledgeable. Her pie crust tutorial is required viewing for anybody attempting to good their approach.
Gena Hamshaw, recipe developer & cookbook creator
Gena taught us that vegan doesn’t equal boring. Croissants, enchiladas, cream of broccoli soup—nothing is simply 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 dwelling and life-style protection, oversaw our My Life at Home sequence, and was a frequent contributor to our YouTube channel. That is one among her many glorious recipes:
Kristen Miglore, cookbook creator & 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, in fact): to focus on the recipes that “get us speaking and alter the way in which we cook dinner.” Her column introduced culinary luminaries like Rose Levy Beranbaum and Jacques Pépin to the Food52 studio and spawned three New York Instances bestselling- and James Beard Award-winning books—Genius Recipes, Genius Desserts, and Simply Genius,—in addition to a podcast, The Genius Recipe Tapes, and a YouTube show.
This was her first column:
Lindsay-Jean Arduous, author, recipe developer & former Neighborhood Editor
Lindsay-Jean, Food52’s first Community Editor, nurtured conversations and connections on the positioning and taught us easy methods to maximize every ingredient. She created our Baking Club and Cookbook Club, 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, centered on sustainable cooking. Lindsay-Jean now works at Zingerman’s and co-authored their latest cookbook.
Mandy Lee, Food52 Resident & host of Escapism Cooking
Mandy Lee turned an surprising transfer to Beijing into a possibility to indicate us her unbridled ardour for daring cooking strategies—like utilizing a blow torch to crisp chicken 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 crew of practically 100. Merrill is known for her madcap side in addition to her reward of figuring out simply what individuals will want to cook.
Millie Peartree, former Food52 Resident
Chef and former restaurateur Millie Peartree introduced her knowledge and scrumptious cooking to her video sequence, 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 options and corrections—could be a tragic, uninformative place had 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 missing ingredients, substitutions and how 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 project look straightforward wtih good baking tips that she sprinkles into all of her videos .
Posie Brien, author & recipe developer
Posie developed practically 300 recipes for us, however one among 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 funds 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 Smart, relays all her knowledge). She and her son Artie hosted our YouTube present, Cook and a Half.
Sarah Jampel, recipe developer & former Food52 editor
A gifted author, recipe developer, and meals stylist, Sarah’s recipes and adaptations 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 creator & Former Food52 Resident
Sohla‘s YouTube sequence, Off-Script with Sohla, taught us easy methods to riff on key cooking strategies. She revealed her debut cookbook Start Here final 12 months, and shared one among 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 Sad Desk Lunch” started. After she left Food52, she began a ceramics enterprise and we later offered her fashionable mugs on the positioning. Full circle! Try her web site here.
Noëlle Bittner, Creator of the Food52 Vacation Swap
In 2011, Food52er Noëlle (aka, enbe) advised a easy, food-centered reward alternate on our Hotline. Our group jumped on the probability and a convention was born. She then facilitated the swap 12 months after 12 months—no small endeavor for one individual. In 2018 alone, she made certain 1,107 individuals from 15 nations across the globe took half within the enjoyable. (It was such a feat, The New York Times lined it!)