About Simply Recipes

Who We Are

For over 20 years, Simply Recipes' mission has been to help take the stress out of feeding your family. Whether you’re cooking for a crew of two or the whole Brady bunch, we offer trusted, family-friendly recipes and practical cooking advice to make mealtimes easier.

All our recipes are professionally developed, rigorously tested, and designed to work in real home kitchens so they’ll taste just as delicious at your table as they do at ours. We also help ease dinnertime anxiety with simple yet effective cooking tips, recommendations for grocery and kitchen products (the same ones that we use ourselves), and fresh ideas to inspire your cooking.

Simply Recipes’ team of editors, recipe developers and testers, writers, and photographers are the primary cooks and grocery shoppers for our families, just like our readers. That means we understand your needs—because they’re our needs too. Whether it’s our series of one-ingredient upgrades passed down through generations, smart meal prep tips for the next holiday, or a simple Coca-Cola peanut snack that reminds us of childhood summers, our recipes and stories reflect the many kitchens, cultures, and traditions of our families.

Our priority is to share recipes you’ll want to make again and again. That’s why more than 12 million home cooks turn to us each month for our reliable, accessible, and family-friendly food content. Creating “kitchen wins” is what we’re all about.

Our History

Elise Bauer was a busy Silicon Valley executive when she became sick with a flu that wouldn’t go away in 2001. In 2003, Elise moved home with her parents and lived with them for several years, recovering from chronic fatigue and documenting her parents’ cooking on Simply Recipes. (Here’s more of that story.) Over the years, what started as a small blog grew to reach millions of readers every month! In 2020, Simply Recipes was acquired by Dotdash Meredith, a New York-based media company.

Recipe Development & Testing

Our recipes primarily use fresh, unprocessed ingredients but we also believe there is a time and a place for canned, frozen, and other prepared ingredients. We believe in a diet that includes a wide variety of foods: real butter and cream, extra virgin olive oil, eggs, lots of fruits and vegetables, and protein from meat, fish, beans, and cheese. Plus cake for dessert.

There are three things we think about when deciding if a recipe is good enough to go on Simply Recipes:

First, does it work? Recipes need to be easy to follow and provide reliable results, every time.

Second, is it delicious? Does the dish make us smile inside and out? Do we want to eat the whole batch by ourselves?

Third, is it worth the effort? Do we want to make it again (and again and again)?

To make sure each of these standards is met, we start by working with expert recipe developers — people with the experience and knowledge to not only develop a good recipe in their own kitchens, but to make sure that recipe works in yours. Next, we thoroughly review and edit every recipe in-house line by line. Finally, each new recipe is run by our team of recipe testers working in home kitchens with the same pots, pans, and tools that you use in yours. Only after all this is the recipe shared on Simply Recipes.

Additionally, at Simply Recipes, we aspire to provide the highest quality content produced by humans, for humans. It is against our guidelines to publish automatically generated content using AI (artificial intelligence) writing tools such as ChatGPT.

Have feedback for us? We’d love to hear from you! Please contact the team at contact@simplyrecipes.com.

Our Values

Everyone is welcome here at Simply Recipes. We strive to be a resource for every home cook, and we consciously work to make this inclusion felt in every part of the site, from the individuals we work with to the recipes, stories, and traditions that we share.

We’re not perfect, but we hope to get more right than we get wrong. If you have concerns about cultural appropriation, bias, or insensitivity in any of our articles, please let us know via contact@simplyrecipes.com. Your concern will be reviewed by a member of our editorial team and by a member of our Anti-Bias Review Board. Once the best course of action is determined, we send a reply to your email letting you know how the matter is being addressed.

Comments

We review and approve every comment left on the site, and generally respond to questions within 1 to 3 days. When leaving comments, we ask that you think of Simply Recipes as our home. Constructive feedback is always welcome, but rude, mean, disrespectful, or spammy comments are not welcome and will not be approved.

Product Reviews

Our product reviews and recommendations are independent and based on extensive research and product testing. If you visit links within our content, we may receive commissions from your purchases.

Learn more about our review process here.

Meet the Team

Laurel is an associate editorial director with over 10 years of experience as a recipe developer and food writer. She has written for The Spruce Eats, Food52, Los Angeles Magazine, EatingWell, Eaten Magazine, Serious Eats, Insider, Paste Magazine, and more. She is the author of four cookbooks, including the bestseller "The Instant Pot Electric Cookbook" and "The Unofficial Simpsons Cookbook." She began writing for Simply Recipes in early 2021.

Laurel Randolph

Associate Editorial Director

Megan is a senior editor and recipe developer with 15 years of wide-ranging experience. Her obsession with food and cooking began in childhood and adolescence, with early cooking experiments that involved setting the oven on fire while trying to make croissants for the first time (they still tasted great!).

Megan Scott

Senior Editor, Recipes

Elaine is a senior editor for Simply Recipes with over 20 years of experience as a food editor, writer, and recipe developer for both digital sites and print publications. She found her passion at age 10 when she started cooking dinners for her family. That’s grown into a love for sharing meals with readers, inspiring them with practical skills and trusty and memorable recipes. Prior to that Elaine was a senior editor at Yummly and at Sunset magazine, as well as a freelance writer.

Elaine Johnson

Senior Editor, Library

Haley is an associate editor for Simply Recipes. She is also the community moderator for Julia Turshen's Sundays With Julia, a weekly online cooking class, where she answers cooking questions and supports attendees while Julia teaches.

Haley Scarpino

Associate Editor, News & Trends

Brooke is the Associate Social Director at Simply Recipes, where she manages brand growth across Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and Flipboard, as well as big-picture strategy and influencer marketing.

Brooke spent two years as the Social Media Editor at The Spruce Eats as well as two years at Real Simple prior to joining Simply Recipes in 2021. She has worked as a writer, print and digital editor, social media manager, and production assistant at various other brands, including SHAPE, Fitness Magazine, BRIDES, Thrillist, and Parents.

Brooke Schuldt

Associate Social Director

Sarah’s love of food and photography grew during her time as a vegetable farmer on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. After moving to Brooklyn over a decade ago, she began working as a content creator and photographer, and in 2017, she accepted her first in-house position. She has since worked for a variety of commercial and editorial brands, including Milk Bar and Food & Wine, and is now a senior art director for Simply Recipes.

Sarah Crowder

Senior Art Director

Wanda has been writing, developing and photographing recipes since 2017. Her love for food started early on as she watched her great-grandmother create amazing masterpieces in the kitchen. Following in her grandmother’s footsteps, she started the food blog "Tried and True Bakes" and has been pursuing new flavors and culinary experiences ever since.After leaving her position in college admissions, Wanda received her cooking certificate from Leith’s School of Food and Wine and started a career in production. She is currently a senior visual editor at Simply Recipes.

Wanda Abraham

Senior Visual Editor

Munni is a self-taught home cook, food blogger, foodie, and food-oriented traveler. Practically raised in the kitchen watching her Bangladeshi mother whip up meals radiating with culture and love, Munni’s appreciation and adoration for good food started at an early age. Pivoting from her life in Healthcare, Munni is currently pursuing her true passion for food and media. She started The Life of a Mortar and Pestle (ie LMP) in 2020 and is an editorial projects manager for Simply Recipes where she also recipe tests and writes.

Munni Pramanik

Editorial Projects Manager

Elise Bauer is the founder of SimplyRecipes.com. A blogging pioneer, Elise first created Simply Recipes in 2003 as a way to keep track of her family’s recipes, and over the years grew it into one of the most popular cooking websites in the world. Whether sharing recipes, explaining cooking techniques, or mentoring fellow bloggers, Elise at heart is an educator, and believes that by generously sharing what we know, everyone benefits.

Before diving into the food world she was a marketing executive in Silicon Valley for 17 years, with Internet startups as well companies such as Apple and Symantec.

Elise Bauer

Founder

Eric is the senior vice president of Dotdash Meredith's Food + Drink group. Before joining Dotdash Meredith in 2013, Eric spent 10 years working in lifestyle media at Condé Nast, where he led operations and finance for various brands including Epicurious, Gourmet, and Brides.com.

Prior to Conde Nast, he worked in the business department at the New York Press, as well as in commercial and TV production.

Eric is an avid home cook and lover of all things food-related. Although not professionally trained as a chef, he has taken dozens of recreational cooking classes. His current food obsession is perfecting his sourdough to get that perfect light and airy crumb with a dark and crispy crust.

Eric Handelsman

Senior Vice President, Dotdash Meredith Food + Drink

Alison is the Associate Product Director for Dotdash Meredith Food + Drink and joined the company in 2018.

Prior to joining Dotdash Meredith, Alison worked as product manager at MyRecipes.com and CookingLight.com.

She first began her career in product management at Time Inc. in the lifestyle media group working on Health.com.

She studied at Lehigh University, graduating with a B.A. in journalism and global studies.

Alison Mango

Associate Product Director, Dotdash Meredith Food + Drink

About Dotdash Meredith

Dotdash Meredith is the largest digital and print publisher in America. From mobile to magazines, nearly 200 million people trust us to help them make decisions, take action, and find inspiration. Dotdash Meredith's over 50 iconic brands include PEOPLE, Better Homes & Gardens, Verywell, FOOD & WINE, The Spruce, Allrecipes, Byrdie, REAL SIMPLE, Investopedia, Southern Living and more.

Dotdash Meredith Press

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Meet Our Senior Management Team

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Frequently Asked Questions

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Contact Us

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Write for Us

We are always on the lookout for new expert voices to join our team of recipe developers and writers. Please submit pitches along with three examples of your published work (print or online) and a brief bio to write@simplyrecipes.com.

We accept pitches for recipes, how-tos, tips, and technique-driven posts.
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