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Lindsay Funston

Editor-in-Chief, The Kitchn

I ensure that every day The Kitchn is doing its best to serve as the secret ingredient for home cooks.Portland, OR

About Me

I never wanted to work in food, but when I got placed as the food team intern at "Real Simple" magazine as a new college grad, I knew it was a better fit than fashion or beauty. I didn't really know how to cook, but I loved to eat, and the idea of writing about food seemed fun. I moved on to work as an editor at Martha Stewart's "Whole Living" (RIP) and Oprah magazine (RIP) before saying farewell to print magazines and joining the founding team at Delish, where I fell totally in love with producing food content for the internet.

Over the years, I've traveled the country hosting my own video series, written cookbooks, and developed hundreds of viral recipes, including the now-famous Marry Me Chicken (yup, that's me!).

I love helping readers (and all of my friends!) figure out easy but still wildly delicious things to cook for dinner, a holiday brunch, a weekend picnic, you name it. Sometimes all you need is a home-cooked meal to turn around a bad day.

My pronouns

she/her/hers

My education

University of Oregon, BA in Magazine Journalism


Latest Stories

Turkey Still Frozen? Don’t Panic — Here’s What to Do
It'll still be super delicious.
Nov 25, 2025
The Salad Dressing Trick I Learned While Traveling in France
I’ll never make dressing another way.
Nov 5, 2025
4-Ingredient Pub Cheese Dip
It's such a crowd pleaser.
Oct 24, 2025
Join The Kitchn Membership Program — For Free!
Join The Kitchn — for free — and say bye forever to dinner drama.
Oct 22, 2025
Introducing Cook Mode+
Meet the game-changer we all need.
Oct 21, 2025
The Reason Why My Dad’s “Tuna Royales” Are Famous in Our Family
My dad is a better cook than I think I realized while growing up. He didn’t cook dinner for us often — he was always working long days as a carpenter and came home exhausted — but he had a few signature recipes that he would flex from time to time: ham & cheese omelets, chicken enchiladas, and Tuna Royales.
Sep 30, 2025
The “Bee Sting Bars” All My Friends Beg Me to Make (the Boxed Secret Ingredient Is Probably in Your Pantry)
I’ll be the first to admit that before I started working at The Kitchn, I had no idea what a “bee sting” dessert entailed. But then we developed our now-famous recipe for Bee Sting Cake, the triple-layer German delicacy that’s “heaven in a cake,” as our recipe tester nicknamed it. What makes it “bee sting”? The crunchy topping of caramelized honey and almonds. (See the best jars of honey — the flavor matters for this recipe!
Sep 27, 2025
My Grandma’s Chocolate Zucchini Bread Is Worth Fighting Over
Everyone says it's "the best."
Aug 22, 2025
My 1-Ingredient Italian Upgrade for the “Best Tomato Toast of Your Life”
In August, tomato toast is basically a food group.
Aug 13, 2025
I Can’t Stop Making This “Liquid Gold”
It’s a sauce! It’s a dip! It’s a dressing!
Aug 6, 2025
Once You Make My Grandma Gwen’s Old-School Fudge, You’ll Never Look at Another Cookie
My Grandma Gwen didn’t leave behind many recipes. As far as I’ve learned from my mom, she was a stereotypical cook for her time, relying heavily on store-bought shortcuts and less on from-scratch recipes. One recipe we do have passed down in the family from her is her famous chocolate fudge. We lost the recipe card for years, never attempting to re-create it in the meantime for fear we wouldn’t do it justice.
Dec 21, 2024
The 2-Ingredient Cream Cheese Dip My Sister Brings to Every Thanksgiving
We don’t have a ton of Thanksgiving traditions in my family. To be honest, I haven’t celebrated the holiday with my immediate family for almost two decades. Once I moved across the country to New York, plane tickets to California were always too expensive to justify flying home just a month before Christmas, and I became accustomed to figuring out my own dinner plans with a different group of friends each year, depending on who else was an orphan.
Nov 27, 2024
My Favorite Method for Cooking Juicy Pork Chops Breaks All the Rules
Give it the royal treatment.
Oct 6, 2024
The “Red Wine Martini” Is the Only Way I’m Drinking Red Wine Right Now
You’re gonna love this.
Oct 5, 2024
This Cheesy One-Pot Pasta Tastes Just Like French Onion Soup
I make it almost every week of fall.
Oct 2, 2024
I Guarantee This Will Be the Easiest Soup You Make All Fall
It's the flexible soup of your dreams.
Oct 2, 2024
This Boston Cream Pie Is So Good I’ve Made It 5 Weeks in a Row
How did it take me this long to make this classic dessert?!
Sep 27, 2024
My Sister’s 2-Ingredient Slow Cooker Chicken Never Lets Me Down
There's a reason she's been making it for over 12 years.
Sep 22, 2024
The Secret to the Best-Ever Baked Potato? Cook Them Like the British Do
Prepare to be blown away.
Sep 14, 2024
The Rule-Bending Cooking Trick for Impossibly Crispy Potatoes (I Can’t Stop Making Them)
These are restaurant-quality spuds.
Sep 13, 2024
The 3-Ingredient Cream Cheese Dip I Make Basically Every Weekend of Fall
It never lasts more than 10 minutes!
Aug 28, 2024
Emily Blunt’s Rule-Bending Trick for Perfectly Crispy Potatoes Is Brilliant
I can't believe I waited so long to try them.
Aug 25, 2024
My Mom Uses This “Perfect” Store-Bought Italian Dressing Seven Nights a Week (It’s Been Her Favorite for 40 Years!)
It’s earned a special spot in my family’s cooking.
Aug 16, 2024
I Can’t Stop Making This “Perfect” Cucumber Salad
I’ve brought it with me everywhere this summer.
Aug 7, 2024
I’ve Made This Creamy Parmesan Zucchini Every Week This Summer
The beginning of August marks zucchini season for me. Sure, it’s been showing up at the farmers market — and my garden, finally! — for the last couple of weeks, but this is when the real bumper crop of summer squash hits. My local farmers are trying to get rid of all their zucchini every Saturday morning. I can score big ones for just $1 each, so I typically walk out lugging way more than I should be — because who can pass up a deal like that?
Aug 4, 2024
The Restaurant Trick for Making a BLT Taste Ridiculously Good
Every summer, there are a few foods I absolutely have to eat because I’m a tomato snob (there, I said it) and refuse to eat these foods during any other time of the year. Tomato toast, Caprese salad, bruschetta, and a BLT top this list. It’s not that I don’t like these foods enough to consider them during, say, spring, but they are infinitely better when using the best ripe summer tomatoes you can find.
Aug 1, 2024
4-Ingredient Garlic Butter Steak Bites Are the Easiest Dinner You’ll Ever Make (My Family LOVES Them)
They'll forever change how you cook steak.
Jul 21, 2024
One Year Later, This Is Still the Only Pasta Salad I’ll Make
It has THE best dressing.
Jul 19, 2024
This Old-Fashioned No-Bake Dessert Is 100x Easier Than Baking a Cake
I make it every summer.
Jul 13, 2024
The Only Baked Beans Worth Making for the 4th of July (They’re Seriously Incredible)
You’ve never seen baked beans like this before.
Jul 3, 2024
The 2-Ingredient Cream Cheese Dip My Sister's Made for 30 Years
It’s always the first to go.
Jul 2, 2024
I Can’t Stop Making These Grilled Potatoes
Once you start, just try to stop.
Jun 14, 2024