Alex Downs

Education: BS in Biosystems Engineering, PhD in Mechanical/Bioengineering

Expertise: Food history, engineering, beekeeping, food from the Southwest desert

Experience

Alex Downs is a bioengineer who loves reading food history literature and tracing the stories behind ingredients. She is a graduate research fellow of the National Science Foundation. In her free time, she does printmaking, writes about food, and makes big messes in the kitchen.

About Serious Eats

Serious Eats, a Dotdash brand, is an award-winning food and drink website visited by over 7 million hungry readers every month. Our audience comes to us for rigorously tested recipes, science-driven cooking techniques, robust equipment reviews, and stories that offer cultural and historical context to the foods we love to eat.

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