You've Got To Taste This

Jason Burnett is content director at MyRecipes.com. Prior to his current role, Jason led content strategy for Southern Progress magazine sites as well as AOL Food and AOL Home. He started cooking family meals when he was 10, but earned real food cred as editor of CookingLight.com.
Jason is an adherent to Julia Child's kitchen philosophy, "The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude."

Anne Cain, a registered dietitian, is the senior food editor for MyRecipes. She comes to MyRecipes after a 17-year stint at Oxmoor House, where she edited over 25 cookbooks including the award-winning All-New Complete Cooking Light Cookbook, Wine, Food & Friends with Karen MacNeil, Best-Ever Secrets from the Cooking Light Test Kitchens, Cooking Light Superfast Suppers, The Cooking Light Way to Lose Weight, Down-Home Diabetic Recipes, and The All-New Complete Step-by-Step Diabetic Cookbook. From 2000 to 2001, she was the editor of Successful Living with Diabetes, a diabetes food and lifestyle magazine. Living with Type 1 diabetes for over 39 years, she has particular expertise in the area of nutrition and diabetes.
She received her undergraduate degree from Auburn University, and master's degrees in both clinical nutrition and public health from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

After pursuing his passion in wine for over 2 decades Gregory Dal Piaz has found a home with Snooth. Most recently the Wine Director with New York City's Astor Wines & Spirits, Gregory has joined Snooth as Community Manager, where he is able to share his 2 decades of experience with food and wine with newcomer and connoisseur alike. While you're most likely to find him in deep conversation with a glass of Barolo, his tastes are eclectic and run the gamut from Australian Riesling to California Zinfandel!

By nature, Carrie is pretty clumsy in the kitchen, and growing up her family usually preferred she stay out of the meal-making. That didn't stop her, however, from being a seriously avid fan of food her entire life. Now that she's on her own, she's eager to prove her stuff by trying out a new recipe every week. A recent graduate of the College of William and Mary, Carrie loves nights spent cooking dinner with friends, she became obsessed with Greek food during a semester abroad, and her favorite kitchen gadget is the peeler.

Charlene Dy loves to eat. She's explored the world of Chinese breakfast food, gone foraging for spring greens in Alabama, and keeps about five pounds of butter in her freezer at all times. Her work has been published in Newsweek and a number of international publications.

Laura Holmes Haddad, a.k.a. The Gourmet Grrl, is a freelance wine and food writer. This culinary school graduate, former caterer, and former cookbook editor is always on the prowl for the next best thing in wine and food. The author of Anything But Chardonnay: A Guide to the Other Grapes ( Stewart Tabori & Chang) and co-author of several cookbooks, Laura can be found drinking Champagne or wondering what to cook next. Visit her website at www.gourmetgrrl.com.

When not editing the Quick and Easy page, Ashley Johnson is constantly on the lookout for ingredients and dishes that taste great and don't take all day to prepare. Her true loves is baking, but she dabbles in roasting, sautéing, and broiling. Her current kitchen Wish List includes a good set of knives, a standing mixer, and a handsome sous chef to help with the chopping.

Holley Johnson is a registered dietitian, food editor for MyRecipes and host of Dinner Tonight. Prior to her role at MyRecipes.com, Holley was Associate Food Editor at Southern Living magazine where she wrote the Healthy Food column, the Healthy Living special section, and other feature stories.
Holley began her career at Southern Progress Corporation's Oxmoor House as an Assistant Food Editor editing cookbooks such as The Best of Cooking Light, Weight Watcher's Annual Recipes for Success 2003, 2004 and 2005, and Weight Watcher's Shortcut Cookbook.
Holley has a Bachelor of Science in Food and Nutrition as well as a Master of Science in Human Nutrition, both from The University of Alabama.

As Cate's sister said recently, "Some people relax by watching TV, Cate cooks." A statement no doubt influenced by the fact that Cate brought a three-day menu down to the shore house with her, including the grocery list needed to pull it off, organized by store department. Cate O'Malley is a writer and food blogger whose work appears on the Cooking Light website and blogs, including the New Jersey Moms Blog, Mad About Martha, The Well Fed Network and her personal food blog, Sweetnicks. She has a passion for healthy, family-friendly food that is both flavorful and wowing. She has also dabbled in catering and organizes the annual Food Blog Awards. When she isn't writing or cooking for her family and friends, Cate organizes a local supper club and works in business development.

Mary Ostyn's newlywed cooking efforts were heavy on cup-o-ramen and boxed macaroni. In the 23 years since then, her family -- and her kitchen repertoire -- has grown to reflect a much broader world. She is now the mother of ten children, including two from Korea and four from Ethiopia. She's become an expert at stretching her grocery dollar, and her recipe rotation includes Thai, Korean, and Ethiopian food, among many others. Her most recent book, FAMILY FEASTS FOR $75 A WEEK, shares black-belt shopping strategies and affordable recipes from every ethnicity. Mary blogs at OWLHAVEN

While traveling through Spain and New Zealand, Kimberly Pettigrew developed a passion for everything culinary. Her hefty collection of cookbooks, aprons, and kitchen filled her car as she braved the move to Birmingham after accepting an internship position with MyRecipes.com. She is currently a student at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville studying Nutrition, Journalism, and Restaurant Management.

While trying to write this bio in third person, Jennifer had to reach for a piece of chocolate. Her life, like most others, is inexplicably tied to food. As a former Cooking Light staffer, she learned that not all recipes are created equal. Precise instructions, testing with everyday appliances, and the ability to please multiple palates is truly science mixed with art. As MyRecipes' Senior Producer, her job is making sure users (that's you!) find the kitchen-tested recipes they need. To her, food is all about sharing.

Born and raised in Birmingham, Jim has always loved food, music and technology. After more than seven years of various internet publishing roles in the company, he joined the MyRecipes.com team in 2007 and is now Production Manager for the site. He stays busy keeping up with recipes and photos, and providing everyone with plenty of chocolate.

A native of Birmingham, Emily joined MyRecipes.com as an associate producer/editor after spending two years producing the AOL Food and AOL Home websites. She enjoys cooking and learning new recipes, but has also been known to rely on the occasional box of Hamburger Helper or frozen pizza on busy weeknights. Emily and her husband especially love hosting friends for weekly Auburn football-watching parties in the fall. She has an Bachelor of Arts in English from Davidson College, and has no apologies for all the March Madness brackets her alma mater busted in 2008! She also loves to write and has been published in Y'All, Southern Living, and Crossroads: A Southern Culture Annual.

Kim Sunée is the author of the national bestseller, TRAIL OF CRUMBS: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home (Grand Central Publishing). Trail of Crumbs was both a BARNES AND NOBLE Discover Great New Writers pick and a Booksense Pick. She has been featured in the New York Times, Ladies' Homes Journal, People, ELLE, and Glamour. She is the founding food editor of Cottage Living. She has been a judge on Iron Chef America and is the host of LOCAL FLAVOR with Kim Sunée for myrecipes.com. Visit Kim's Web site at www.kimsunee.com. (Photo: Beau Gustafson)

From eating authentic street foods in Vietnam to dining at hibachi grills in Japan to indulging in tapas throughout Spain, Virginia Switzer has traveled around the world expanding her palate. She appreciates variety and will try just about any food once. Her love for the culinary art derived from a small country kitchen in West Tennessee where she learned how to can, fry, and cook large family meals from scratch. Her recent obsession is grilling with cedar planks, and she is in the market for a new grill.