Mary Kate Hoban
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Mary Kate Hoban is a Director at Serious Eats, where she oversees content and strategy for product testing, reviews, and buying guides. She has been with Serious Eats since 2022. She's worked at several food brands writing and editing product reviews and shopping guides, including The Spruce Eats, Simply Recipes, EatingWell, and Allrecipes. Before focusing on food, she worked as an editor at American Media Inc., covering fashion and beauty for In Touch Weekly, Life & Style, and Closer magazines. She has also worked as an entertainment editor at Elite Daily and an account manager at Socialfly, a social media agency, where she focused on clients in the hospitality and lifestyle spaces—including a Michelin Star restaurant. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications including The Spruce Eats, Elite Daily, First for Women, and more. Mary Kate received a BA in Journalism from The University of Georgia.
Highlights
- Mary Kate has worked for Serious Eats since 2022.
- Her work has appeared in a variety of publications including The Spruce Eats, Elite Daily, Life & Style, Closer, First for Women, Atlanta Parent, and more.
- Mary Kate received a B.A. in Journalism from The University of Georgia.
Experience
Mary Kate grew up cooking alongside her mom in the kitchen (and it's still her favorite kitchen in which to create culinary masterpieces) and gardening alongside her dad (and his beloved heirloom tomatoes) in Georgia. She's since learned to adapt family recipes for smaller portions and (much) smaller NYC spaces. She's written and edited lifestyle content for a decade now, including gift guides, product reviews, and profiles, and believes food is really all about the people—those growing it, those making it, and those enjoying it together at the table. You can usually find her with a cup of coffee in hand, unless it's happy hour, in which case she trades the coffee for a glass of wine accompanied by a good cheese board.
Education
Mary Kate received a B.A. in Journalism from The University of Georgia.
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.