Kristen Miglore

KRISTEN MIGLOREis the creative director at Food52.com. Sheabandoned a career in economics in 2007 to pursue a master's degree in food studies from New York University and a culinary degree from the Institute of Culinary Education. Her writing has since been published inThe Wall Street Journal,Saveur, andThe Atlantic, and she was nominated for a James Beard Award for Food52's Genius Recipes column in 2014. The column led to theGenius Recipescookbook in 2015, which won an IACP award in 2016 and became aNew York Timesbest seller. She lives in Brooklyn and usually has a pastry in her purse. FOOD52 is a groundbreaking online kitchen and home destination. Founded by Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs--two authors and opinionated home cooks who formerly worked for the New York Times--the company celebrates home cooks, giving them everything they need in one place. That includes smart and entertaining stories about cooking and home, over 70,000 recipes, a cooking hotline, a suite of cookbooks, a shop with everything from stunning tabletop goods to the trustiest pan, and a million-strong community of fellow talented and curious cooks.