Our story

We started cooking for the joy of it.

Simply Gourmet is a small test kitchen with a big curiosity. We test, taste, photograph, and write about home cooking from every cuisine we can get our hands on.

Why we do this

A library every home cook deserves.

Simply Gourmet was started in 2024 by four cooks who had grown tired of food sites with empty filler, popups, and recipes nobody had actually tested. We wanted a place where every recipe is cooked twice, photographed honestly, and written by someone who knows why a step matters.

Today we have 95 recipes covering ten cuisines, an opinionated kitchen store, and a small team that answers your emails. We will never run autoplay videos, and we will never recommend a tool we wouldn't put on our own counter.

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A weekend in our kitchen

Honest photographs of real food.

Our team

Meet the cooks behind the curtain.

Lila Hartwell

Founding Editor

Lila spent a decade running test kitchens in New York and London. She started Simply Gourmet because she wanted a recipe site she could trust on a Tuesday night. Her favorite cuisine is whichever one she is cooking right now.

Marco Castellani

Senior Recipe Tester

Marco grew up in Bologna and learned to cook from his grandmother. He runs the pasta and pizza programs at Simply Gourmet and has opinions, with footnotes, about every step of a Bolognese.

Priya Shahani

Kitchen Gear Editor

Priya tests every tool that comes through our doors before it makes the store. Engineer by training, she is allergic to marketing copy and writes with the bluntness of someone who cooks dinner for a hungry family every night.

Wyatt Brennan

Pitmaster & BBQ Editor

Wyatt smokes briskets in central Texas and can talk for an hour about the right kind of post oak. He runs our BBQ & Grill program and brings a pitmaster's patience to every long cook.

Our promise

Your kitchen, your call.

Try the membership free for 30 days. If it doesn't earn its place in your kitchen, we will refund you in full. That is our 30-day money-back guarantee.

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