John Somerall

Title: Editorial Project Manager, Food - Research + Testing

Location: Birmingham, Alabama

Education: Virginia College

Expertise: Food, Drinks, Cooking, Kitchen Products, Outdoor Products, Camping, Backpacking, Hiking

John has written and tested hundreds of recipes for various Dotdash Meredith brands including Food & Wine, Southern Living, Real Simple, EatingWell.
He has researched thousands of kitchen-related products and tested hundreds of kitchen, outdoor, and fitness products as a member of Dotdash Meredith's Research and Testing team.
He has over four years of experience writing, testing, and styling recipes, and over a decade of experience working in fine dining restaurants. He has been cooking for over 20 years.

Experience

John Somerall is an Editorial Project Manager on the Research and Testing team in Birmingham, a department of Dotdash Meredith’s Commerce team. As the Editorial Project Manager for the Food team, he has researched thousands of kitchen-related products and tested hundreds of kitchen, outdoor, and fitness products as a part of Dotdash Meredith's product testing program. He started working at Dotdash Meredith in 2019 as a Recipe Developer, Tester, and Food Stylist Assistant in the Dotdash Meredith Food Studios before transitioning to the Commerce team in 2022. In addition to having over four years of experience writing, testing, and styling recipes, he also has over a decade of experience working in fine dining restaurants and has managed kitchens for James Beard Award-winning chefs.

Education

Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management - Virginia College

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.

Dotdash is among the largest and fastest growing publishers online, and has won over 50 awards in the last year alone, including Digiday's 2020 Publisher of the Year. Dotdash brands include Verywell, Investopedia, The Balance, The Spruce, Simply Recipes, Serious Eats, Byrdie, Brides, MyDomaine, Lifewire, TripSavvy, Liquor.com, and TreeHugger.