Chris Morocco
Chris Morocco is the food director of Bon Appétit and Epicurious, a recipe developer, and the familiar face behind the blind tasting challenges of Reverse Engineering.
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Bon Appétit
Bon Appétit
Bon AppétitOverview
- Work
- Food director, Bon Appétit and Epicurious
- Training
- French Culinary Institute graduate
- Based in
- Philadelphia
- Breakout series
- Reverse Engineering, launched in 2019
Mini bio
Before the Test Kitchen.
Chris worked in bookings production at Vogue, organizing photo shoots and talent. Passing the Gourmet Test Kitchen made a different kind of working day seem possible. Culinary training at the French Culinary Institute led into a career developing recipes, including work as a Bon Appétit kitchen assistant and roles at Real Simple and Food & Wine.
The blind tasting challenge.
After appearing in Bon Appétit videos, Chris became the host of Reverse Engineering in 2019. The premise gives fans a close look at the way a recipe developer thinks: identify a dish without seeing it, then work out how to make it. The first challenge was Gordon Ramsay’s beef Wellington.
Helping people cook.
Today Chris leads the food teams at Bon Appétit and Epicurious. Beyond recipe development and video, Dinner SOS brought that teaching instinct to listeners’ kitchen problems. The show paused after its June 2025 finale. In From the Test Kitchen, Chris also shares the thinking behind recipes and the work of the team.
Creditschronological, newest first
Writing and recipes
Video and audio
- 2025Dinner SOS: A Speed Round of Listener Cooking QuestionsHost, with Amiel Stanek
- 2019Reverse EngineeringHost
Awards
Quotes
I love the audacity of a book, that once printed it will sit there, immutable, for years.Chris Morocco, Booktique
Reflecting on books as a Booktique awards judge: https://www.booktique.com/chris-morocco
Trivia
- Chris likes to put on Bill Evans Trio while cooking alone, with cats watching from their climbing tower.
- In a 2016 staff interview, Chris named a sharp knife as the essential kitchen tool.
- Booktique invited Chris to serve as a Book of the Year judge.
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