Christina Chaey
Christina Chaey is a Brooklyn food writer and recipe developer behind Gentle Foods, sharing recipes and essays about cooking, care, and letting go of perfectionism.
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Simon Element
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Bon Appétit
Bon AppétitOverview
- Based in
- Brooklyn, New York
- Work
- Food writer, recipe developer, and former magazine editor
- Known to fans for
- Bon Appétit’s test kitchen videos and Gentle Foods
- Newsletter
- Gentle Foods, launched in 2023
- Next book
- Gentle Foods, scheduled for February 2, 2027
Mini bio
How it started.
Christina grew up in Tenafly, New Jersey, and studied journalism at Northwestern. Reporting for The Daily Northwestern, helping with its dining guide, and a 2010 dining internship at Chicago magazine helped connect her interests in food and journalism.
Learning by cooking.
She joined Bon Appétit in 2014 and also spent time working as a restaurant line cook at Untitled at the Whitney. In a Chicago magazine interview, she explained that culinary school was financially out of reach and that a professional kitchen gave her a valuable practical education.
The test kitchen years.
At Bon Appétit, she developed recipes, edited food coverage, and appeared in videos. Fans got to cook alongside her on screen in From the Test Kitchen and Making Perfect: Thanksgiving, where she and Claire Saffitz worked on vegetable sides.
Cooking with care.
The idea for Gentle Foods grew out of a March 2020 Bon Appétit newsletter she wrote during a time of anxiety and uncertainty. In 2023 she began her own newsletter, bringing recipes together with essays about mental health, diet culture, and perfectionism. Her debut cookbook, Gentle Foods, is scheduled by Simon Element for February 2, 2027.
Creditschronological, newest first
Books and newsletters
- 2027 (forthcoming)Gentle Foods: Recipes That Feel Good to Make and EatAuthor
- 2023–presentGentle FoodsNewsletter writer and recipe developer
Recipes and video
- 2021Green Curry Lentil SoupRecipe developer, Bon Appétit
- 2019Making Perfect: ThanksgivingOn-screen cook, Thanksgiving sides with Claire Saffitz
Quotes
My friends call me Chaey (and you can, too).Christina Chaey, Gentle Foods About page
Trivia
- She owns more than 120 cookbooks, according to her newsletter bio.
- Grocery shopping makes her list of top-three hobbies.
- She grew up racing home from school to watch The Barefoot Contessa.
- Her friend Leanne Gan designed the Gentle Foods logo.
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