Faith Durand

Coming Up

The editorial line between home cooking and serious kitchen culture is where Faith Durand has worked for years, shaping coverage at The Kitchn with a steady hand. She served as editor-in-chief until 2019, then moved into the executive editor role, keeping her career inside the same publication rather than resetting it elsewhere. That continuity matters in editorial work: it is how a voice gets refined, how a readership learns what to expect, and how a platform keeps its point of view intact.

Where They Are Now

At The Kitchn, Faith Durand continues as executive editor, carrying forward the publication’s voice and coverage from within the same outlet that defined her earlier leadership. Her writing sits in the practical register of home cooking: direct, useful, and oriented toward food that people actually make. When she says, “Mashed potatoes are one of my favorite comfort foods, and it's not hard to make them taste amazing,” the point is not flourish but method—plain food handled with enough attention to deliver more than routine results.

Signature

Faith Durand’s signature dishes include Extra-Creamy Cooked Cream Cheese Icing, Golden Mashed Potatoes, Classic Sage Dressing, Quince and Vanilla Sorbet, and Not Your Mother's Casseroles. Read together, they show an editor’s palate moving between familiar ground and slight disruption: icing and potatoes for comfort, sorbet for precision and seasonality, dressing for herb-driven depth, and casseroles presented with a small but deliberate shift away from the expected.

In Their Words “I used to work at a restaurant where the cooks dropped a brick of cream cheese, a long swig of cream, and unmentionable amounts of butter into the joint's famous smashed potatoes.” “Mashed potatoes are one of my favorite comfort foods, and it's not hard to make them taste amazing.”

Honors

Faith Durand’s honors include a James Beard Award and the IACP Digital Media Award for Culinary Blog Group in 2014.