KERRI CONAN is a former editor at Simon & Schuster and has collaborated with Mark Bittman on numerous cookbooks since 2004, developing recipes, directing testing, producing photo shoots, and escorting manuscripts through the publishing process. Before Kerri started working with Mark, she ran the test kitchen at Restaurant Business magazine, where she had the opportunity to tour all kinds of agricultural and food production operations around the world. Her freelance stories have appeared in Gourmet, Health, Entertainment Weekly, Organic Living, and Saveur magazines as well as Mark's blog for the New York Times, his newsletter, and Heated on the Medium platform. She lives in the Pacific Northwest and posts on Instagram under @ourdailybowl.