Merrill is co-founder and president of Food52, the James Beard Award-winning site for all things kitchen and home. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Edible Brooklyn, and Body+Soul, among other publications. She attended Le Cordon Bleu in London and got her start in the food world as an intern at Cook’s Illustrated and working at Flour Bakery in Boston, MA, before collaborating with her Food52 co-founder Amanda Hesser on the Essential New York Times Cookbook.