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About Emma

Emma Christensen is a food writer and editor with 8 years of experience creating food and cooking content for online and print publication. She is the managing editor for Simply Recipes and a former editor for The Kitchn. She is also the author of three books on homebrewing, True Brews, Brew Better Beer, and Modern Cider (forthcoming 2017), and she collaborated on the James Beard award-winning The Kitchn Cookbook. Her work has appeared in Fine Cooking, Vegetarian Times, Cook's Illustrated, and Edible Columbus. Emma is a graduate of The Cambridge School for Culinary Arts and Bryn Mawr College. She is based in San Jose, California.

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Writing Clips

• I Followed My Mom Around Costco and This is What I Learned, The Kitchn

• Comté Cheese Tour, Part 1: Every Wheel of Comté Cheese Starts Here, The Kitchn

• How To Bake Chicken Breasts in the Oven, The Kitchn

•  How To Cook a Frozen Turkey, The Kitchn

•  Recipe: Slow-Cooker Chicken Tikka Masala, The Kitchn

Sample Videos

• Julia Child's Trick for Perfectly Poached Eggs: The Video, The Kitchn

• How To Cook Ribs in the Oven: Video, The Kitchn

• How to Boil Water: A Tone Poem, The Kitchn

Special Projects

• The Kitchn's Cooking School, Fall 2014

• The Kitchn's Baking School, Fall 2015

• The Kitchn's Beer School, Spring 2015