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The Food Lab
Who We Are
Serious Eats is an award-winning food and drink website visited by over 7 million hungry readers every month. Our audience comes to us for rigorously tested recipes, science-driven cooking techniques, robust equipment reviews, and stories that offer cultural and historical context to the foods we love to eat.
Since it was founded in 2006, Serious Eats’s editorial staff and contributors have included recipe developers, practiced home cooks, professional chefs, scientists, historians, journalists, photographers, novelists, and more. Members of our editorial team come from publications like America’s Test Kitchen, Food & Wine, The New York Times, and Saveur; most have also worked in the restaurant industry and/or attended culinary school. Across the board, we’re a group of passionate, opinionated food enthusiasts with a drive to dive deep, get things right, and do justice to any topic we take on.
Why So Serious?
In our case, serious doesn’t mean exclusive or highbrow. Our approach to our work in the kitchen is serious, but the results are for everyone, whether you’re a hardcore food nerd making a special-occasion feast or a casual, once-a-week cook who’s just looking for your next dinner. Likewise, we take seriously our responsibility to produce only food-related features that are useful, interesting, and accurate, but we’re as open to a tale of wacky experimentation with the American Girl doll cookbooks as we are to a reported story on fraud in the seafood industry.
Whatever your interests and cooking style, we’ve got a new recipe, technique, or thought-provoking perspective on food for you. We believe food can and should be a fun and engaging topic for everyone.
Our History
Serious Eats was founded in 2006 by author and journalist Ed Levine, who envisioned Serious Eats as a haven for enthusiastic and opinionated eaters just like him. Since then, Serious Eats has evolved from its days as a blog covering food trends and the restaurant industry into a full-fledged food resource best known for its recipe and instructional cooking content. You can learn more by checking out Grub Street’s Oral History of Serious Eats or learn more about founder Ed Levine’s journey in his book Serious Eater: A Food Lover's Perilous Quest for Pizza and Redemption
Serious Eats was acquired by Dotdash in September, 2020.
Recipe Development and Testing
At Serious Eats, our mission is to give home cooks and food lovers the skill sets, knowledge, and cultural context to make every meal memorable—with or without a recipe. This means that whether we’re publishing a recipe or writing a story about a specific dish or ingredient, we always want to answer the same fundamental questions: Where does it come from? How is it made, and why in that way? And crucially, who are the best people to answer or otherwise inform those questions?
Each of our recipes is methodically tested and tasted, over and over again, by our dedicated recipe developers and crosstesters, all of them skilled culinary professionals. We don’t publish a new Serious Eats recipe until we’re certain it’s the tastiest version out there, and we’re constantly updating our old recipes with new techniques and improvements based on further testing and reader suggestions.
Have feedback for us? You can reach our team at contact@seriouseats.com.
Product and Equipment Reviews
Looking for the best coffee maker or trying to figure out which multi-cooker to buy? Our reviews and recommendations of food products and kitchen equipment are conducted by culinary experts who test each piece of equipment or food item against its competitors. If we’re recommending it, you can be sure that it’s been thoroughly vetted by knowledgeable writers and editors who have actually used and abused the equipment they’re writing about.
Learn more about our review process here.
Awards, Press, and Publications
Serious Eats was the 2018 recipient of the IACP award for Best Culinary Website, and has received James Beard Foundation Awards for Best Food Blog and Best Video Webcast. You can usually find articles published on Serious Eats in the pages of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s annual collection The Best American Food Writing.
Serious Eats is an award-winning food and drink website visited by over 7 million hungry readers every month. Our audience comes to us for rigorously tested recipes, science-driven cooking techniques, robust equipment reviews, and stories that offer cultural and historical context to the foods we love to eat.
Since it was founded in 2006, Serious Eats’s editorial staff and contributors have included recipe developers, practiced home cooks, professional chefs, scientists, historians, journalists, photographers, novelists, and more. Members of our editorial team come from publications like America’s Test Kitchen, Food & Wine, The New York Times, and Saveur; most have also worked in the restaurant industry and/or attended culinary school. Across the board, we’re a group of passionate, opinionated food enthusiasts with a drive to dive deep, get things right, and do justice to any topic we take on.
Why So Serious?
In our case, serious doesn’t mean exclusive or highbrow. Our approach to our work in the kitchen is serious, but the results are for everyone, whether you’re a hardcore food nerd making a special-occasion feast or a casual, once-a-week cook who’s just looking for your next dinner. Likewise, we take seriously our responsibility to produce only food-related features that are useful, interesting, and accurate, but we’re as open to a tale of wacky experimentation with the American Girl doll cookbooks as we are to a reported story on fraud in the seafood industry.
Whatever your interests and cooking style, we’ve got a new recipe, technique, or thought-provoking perspective on food for you. We believe food can and should be a fun and engaging topic for everyone.
Our History
Serious Eats was founded in 2006 by author and journalist Ed Levine, who envisioned Serious Eats as a haven for enthusiastic and opinionated eaters just like him. Since then, Serious Eats has evolved from its days as a blog covering food trends and the restaurant industry into a full-fledged food resource best known for its recipe and instructional cooking content. You can learn more by checking out Grub Street’s Oral History of Serious Eats or learn more about founder Ed Levine’s journey in his book Serious Eater: A Food Lover's Perilous Quest for Pizza and Redemption
Serious Eats was acquired by Dotdash in September, 2020.
Recipe Development and Testing
At Serious Eats, our mission is to give home cooks and food lovers the skill sets, knowledge, and cultural context to make every meal memorable—with or without a recipe. This means that whether we’re publishing a recipe or writing a story about a specific dish or ingredient, we always want to answer the same fundamental questions: Where does it come from? How is it made, and why in that way? And crucially, who are the best people to answer or otherwise inform those questions?
Each of our recipes is methodically tested and tasted, over and over again, by our dedicated recipe developers and crosstesters, all of them skilled culinary professionals. We don’t publish a new Serious Eats recipe until we’re certain it’s the tastiest version out there, and we’re constantly updating our old recipes with new techniques and improvements based on further testing and reader suggestions.
Have feedback for us? You can reach our team at contact@seriouseats.com.
Product and Equipment Reviews
Looking for the best coffee maker or trying to figure out which multi-cooker to buy? Our reviews and recommendations of food products and kitchen equipment are conducted by culinary experts who test each piece of equipment or food item against its competitors. If we’re recommending it, you can be sure that it’s been thoroughly vetted by knowledgeable writers and editors who have actually used and abused the equipment they’re writing about.
Learn more about our review process here.
Awards, Press, and Publications
Serious Eats was the 2018 recipient of the IACP award for Best Culinary Website, and has received James Beard Foundation Awards for Best Food Blog and Best Video Webcast. You can usually find articles published on Serious Eats in the pages of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s annual collection The Best American Food Writing.