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Christina Chaey

Senior Food Editor

As the senior food editor at Bon Appétit, Christina spends her days in the BA Test Kitchen dreaming up recipes for home cooks (Chocolate-Matcha Butter Mochi Cake and Green Curry Lentil Soup are favorites). She also oversees the brand’s digital recipe content, working with freelancers and test kitchen staff to publish hundreds of home cook-friendly recipes on bonappetit.com every year. Christina has been at BA since 2014, with a short stint from 2017-2018 when she worked as a line cook for chef Suzanne Cupps at (the now-closed) Untitled at the Whitney Museum of American Art. At BA, Christina has done a bit of everything: She’s written and edited magazine features, hosted videos on the BA YouTube channel, been a frequent guest on the podcast, and co-produced a 500+ person live podcast event. She writes a monthly newsletter for BA that often explores her relationship to food and wellness. When she's not working, she’s riding all around NYC on her bike, experimenting with sourdough, or arms-deep in the season’s best produce at the greenmarket.

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Will Travel for Snacks: A Food Lover's Guide to Eating the World

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This week, we're going deep on vegetables with two Southern chefs who know 'em best.

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On today's foodcast episode, Food52 cofounder and New York Times veteran Amanda Hesser talks about her impressive career, the new guard of food media, and starting her own company.

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Can We Have This Ground Chicken Larb for Dinner Every Night?

This 30-minute larb is crunchy, salty, spicy, and everything we want to eat tonight.

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Meet Carrie Pacini, our Readers' Choice Week winner for your best spicy recipe.

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On today's foodcast episode, Los Angeles Times restaurant critic Jonathan Gold talks about what it was like to film the new documentary, "City of Gold."

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Meet Dhanya Samuel, our Readers' Choice Week winner for best chocolate dessert.

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Meet Shelly West, our Readers' Choice Week winner for best vegetarian main dish.

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On today's foodcast episode, we're going retro. Food director Carla Lalli Music and Test Kitchen editor Claire Saffitz talk tuna casserole (and a fear of tuna casserole), chocolate mousse, meatloaf, and all that good stuff that defined our childhoods.

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Associate editor Christina Chaey finally learns the secret to the braised short ribs her grandma only makes her once a year.