Catherine Jessee

Catherine Jessee is a Test Kitchen Assistant in the Dotdash Meredith Food Studios. She has tested recipes for brands including Simply Recipes, All Recipes, Eating Well, Food & Wine, Real Simple, People, and Southern Living. Prior to joining the Food Studios, she accumulated 3 years of experience cooking in restaurants. She is also a writer and has contributed to publications like Domino Magazine, The Knot Magazine, and Wildsam Almanacs.

Catherine received her M.A. in Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi, where she worked as a line cook at Tarasque Cucina and served as a Nathalie Dupree Graduate Fellow with the Southern Foodways Alliance. Catherine’s expertise focuses on the confluence food and culture; Her Masters Thesis “The Wild Asleep: A Cultural and Environmental History of Ramps” collects oral histories and interviews with foragers, cooks, and avid eaters of wild onions across Appalachia and beyond. She earned the Department of English Graduate Writing Award in the research category.

Your go-to dish to bring to a potluck: "Ritz Crackers and pimento cheese—always my mom's recipe!"