Emily Farris

Emily Farris has been writing about food and home decor for nearly 20 years, and shopping online just as long. As senior commerce writer at Epicurious and Bon Appétit, she covers cleaning, kitchen safety, decor, cocktails, and grilling, and she’s always on the lookout for products that are both functional and beautiful. Emily is the author of I'll Just Be Five More Minutes: And Other Tales From My ADHD Brain (Hachette, 2024) and she contributed to Charlotte Druckman’s Women on Food (2019) as well as The Bust DIY Guide to Life (2011). Her articles and and essays have appeared in Clever, Gourmet, Food52, Eater, The Cut, Hunker, Lifehacker, The Spruce Eats, Cool Hunting, BuzzFeed, Culture, Kitchn, What’s Up Moms, Elle Decor, Women’s Wear Daily, and Midwest Living, among other publications. She’s also developed, styled, and photographed recipes for Anova Culinary and Food Network. While living in Brooklyn in the early aughts, Emily hosted an annual casserole competition for Midwestern transplants and at age 26, she published a casserole cookbook with a now-defunct Penguin imprint. Emily lives in a century-old bungalow in Kansas City, MO with her husband, two young sons, one rowdy rescue mutt, and three backyard chickens. When she’s not rigorously testing products in the kitchen, she writes from a fancy shed behind her house (where she also sporadically hosts the Mother Mother Podcast). Emily loathes fruit (except for citrus) and doesn’t have much of a sweet tooth, but they let her work here anyway.