Emily Johnson

Emily Johnson
Location: New York, NY

Emily is first-and-foremost, a passionate home cook whose interests include but are not limited to the following:

  • Spending an entire snowy day making cassoulet for friends.
  • Pulling random ingredients out of the fridge on a weeknight to see what she can come up with.
  • Cooking with friends at a vacation rental.
  • Sending braggy pictures of things she baked to her mom and her brother.
  • Receiving braggy photos from her mom and her brother of things they baked.
  • Designing a custom birthday menu for you on Canva.
  • Hosting dinner parties with enough candles to make you feel cozy but also slightly uneasy.
  • Trying to improve upon her family chocolate chip cookie recipe, only to find that it was perfect to begin with.

Experience

Emily has worked as a food writer and editor for ten years, across publications such as Lucky Peach, Epicurious, Bon Appétit, and The New York Times Cooking. She's written columns on dinner party hosting and cooking for one. She had a column where she mined deep in the recipe archives for retro gems. For five years, she devoted her work life to testing kitchen gear—making hundreds of smoothies to find the best blender, soups to find the best immersion blender, and more. Because of this, she's always the friend who's willing to figure out the coffee machine in the Airbnb.

About Serious Eats

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