Devan Grimsrud

Devan Grimsrud
Business: Devan Grimsrud
Location: Berlin, Germany
Education: University of Minnesota — School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Expertise: Weeknight cooking , Baking
  • Featured in Eater, Food & Wine, and Simply Recipes
  • Managing editor at Kitchen Stories, a digital cooking platform
  • Co-wrote two cookbooks

Experience

Devan Grimsrud is a Berlin-based writer, editor, and recipe developer originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota. After working in television production with James Beard Award-winning chef Andrew Zimmern, she relocated to Berlin and became the managing editor at Kitchen Stories, an international digital cooking platform with millions of active users. Now, she swapped the desk life for work in restaurants and is a baker by day and a writer by night.

Her work has been published in the likes of Eater and Food & Wine, and she's also co-written two cookbooks. Find her most recent work via her free Substack newsletter, darn good by devan grimsrud.

Best cooking advice: "The best piece of cooking/baking advice I was ever given was to make every mistake once."

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