Maggie Hoffman

Location: Brooklyn, NY

Education: Princeton University

Expertise: Cocktails

Maggie Hoffman is a longtime food and drink expert whose recipes and cocktail-making tips can be found on her newsletters What to Drink and The Dinner Plan.
Maggie Hoffman is the author of The One-Bottle Cocktail: More than 80 Recipes with Fresh Ingredients and a Single Spirit and Batch Cocktails: Make Ahead Pitcher Drinks for Every Occasion.
Hoffman was the digital director at Epicurious and was the drinks editor and then managing editor at Serious Eats from 2010-2016.
She also reviewed bars for the San Francisco Chronicle and wrote for Food & Wine, Sunset, Rachael Ray Every Day, Wine Enthusiast, and more.

Experience

Maggie Hoffman has been an editor and writer covering food and beverage since 2010. Her newsletter, What to Drink, covers cocktail recipes, non-alcoholic drinks, bottle recommendations, and tips for making cocktails at home.

Hoffman is the author of two cocktail books published by Ten Speed Press: The One-Bottle Cocktail: More than 80 Recipes with Fresh Ingredients and a Single Spirit and Batch Cocktails: Make Ahead Pitcher Drinks for Every Occasion.

She served as managing editor for Serious Eats from 2014–2016. She founded the Serious Eats drinks vertical and was drinks editor of the site from 2010–2014. More recently, she served as senior editor (2019–2021) and then digital director (2021–2023) of Epicurious. She has contributed bar reviews to the San Francisco Chronicle and has published articles in Food & Wine, Bon Appétit, TASTE, Wine Enthusiast, Sunset, Rachel Ray Every Day, Saveur, and others.

Education

Princeton University

About Serious Eats

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