Kitchn Crush

Welcome to Kitchn’s series Kitchn Crush, where we highlight some of the coolest, most inspiring people in food you need to know about right now. When was the last time you really thought about your olive oil? Sure, maybe you take a few minutes to scan the many options in the grocery aisle before selecting one (usually the one on sale, if you’re me) — but do you ever pause to truly consider how that olive oil made it into your hands?

Welcome to Kitchn’s series Kitchn Crush, where we highlight some of the coolest, most inspiring people in food you need to know about right now. Rosh Hashana (the celebration of Jewish New Year) begins at sundown on Sunday, September 9, and from now until then Paula Shoyer‘s phone is going to be ringing off the hook.

We talked to the Portland-based blogger about her gorgeous kitchen renovation and how wellness shouldn't be expensive.

Welcome to Kitchn’s series Kitchn Crush, where we highlight some of the coolest, most inspiring people in food you need to know about right now.. Despite what many people may think, Heather Tierney, the creative director and founder of The Butcher’s Daughter is not, in fact, the daughter of a butcher — although the story kind of fits.

Welcome to Kitchn’s series Kitchn Crush, where we highlight some of the coolest, most inspiring people in food you need to know about right now. Greg Arnold is the fermentation funkmaster behind Dark Horse Organic, a high-vibe, high-end, and high-flavor line of artfully packaged condiments that have taken over our feed — and our food. The Los Angeles-based company is on a mission to make what’s old new again.

Welcome to Kitchn’s series Kitchn Crush, where we highlight some of the coolest, most inspiring people in food you need to know about right now. Julie Smolyansky knows what it takes to start a food business from scratch. It’s basically in her DNA. She’s the CEO of Lifeway Foods, a multi-million-dollar company that her parents started in the 1980s to introduce kefir — a probiotic, cultured dairy beverage — to the States.

Welcome to Kitchn’s series Kitchn Crush, where we highlight some of the coolest, most inspiring people in food you need to know about right now. If you listen to the three co-founders of Seed + Mill (Rachel Simons, Lisa Mendelson, and Monica Molenaar) wax poetic about tahini, even just for a minute, I guarantee that you’re going to spend the rest of the day drizzling the contents of one of their jars of emulsified sesame seed paste over every single thing you eat that day.

Welcome to Kitchn’s series Kitchn Crush, where we highlight some of the coolest, most inspiring people in food you need to know about right now. Trent Pheifer is patiently awaiting an invitation to one of Ina Garten’s famous dinner parties in the Hamptons, but in the meantime, he’s hosting his own in his apartment in NYC. Why? He’s the mystery man behind the Instagram account @StoreboughtIsFine, a not-so-subtle homage to his culinary idol, the Barefoot Contessa.

Welcome to Kitchn’s series Kitchn Crush, where we highlight some of the coolest, most inspiring people in food you need to know about right now. Ky and Mel, two sisters from South Dakota, are attempting to crack open the space between restaurant and lifestyle brand.

Welcome to Kitchn’s series Kitchn Crush, where we highlight some of the coolest, most inspiring people in food you need to know about right now. There are a lot of self-proclaimed family dinnertime experts out there, but only one Lazy Genius — and Kendra Adachi is “the Laziest Genius” of them all.

Welcome to Kitchn’s series Kitchn Crush, where we highlight some of the coolest, most inspiring people in food you need to know about right now. When she set out to write a cookbook about the food she grew up eating, more than anything, author and storyteller Von Diaz wanted to do it justice. “It was never going to be, like, 15 Spicy-Light Puerto Rican Recipes. That book was never going to come out of me,” she says.

Welcome to Kitchn’s series Kitchn Crush, where we highlight some of the coolest, most inspiring people in food you need to know about right now. Vallery Lomas would like to reintroduce herself. The lawyer-turned-baker-turned-blogger from New York City is the winner of the third season of The Great American Baking Show — but you wouldn’t know that because her season never aired.

Haile Thomas has spent nearly half of her life passionately advocating for the health benefits of leading a plant-based lifestyle — and she’s only 18 years old. You do the math. At age 12, she founded The HAPPY Org (Healthy Active Positive Purposeful Youth), a nonprofit to bring nutrition, health, and prevention education programs to underserved and at-risk communities.

Amirah Kassem, the creator of the most recognizable rainbow layer cake your Instagram has ever seen, always knew she wanted to be a baker when she grew up — but she could never have guessed that her career would explode in the way that it did. “I feel like my younger self would freak out at what I’m making now,” she explains while gushing over her Lisa Frank-hued, sprinkle-clad cake creations that she and her team churn out of their magical NYC bakery on the daily.

Once you pick your jaw up off the floor after scrolling through her Instagram, Zoe Francois is here to teach you all of her baking tricks.