Megan Scott

Megan is an editor and recipe developer with 15 years of wide-ranging experience. Her obsession with food and cooking began in childhood and adolescence, with early cooking experiments that involved setting the oven on fire while trying to make croissants for the first time (they still tasted great!).

She has been a cheesemaker's apprentice, a bakery owner, an assistant pastry chef at a fine dining restaurant, and a culinary director at a creative agency where she developed thousands of recipes for beloved brands, including Tofurky and Sugar In The Raw. 

In 2019, after developing 600 new recipes, testing over 2,000 legacy recipes, and turning in a 1.2 million-word manuscript, Megan and her husband, John Becker, published the ninth edition of the classic cookbook, "Joy of Cooking."

Most beloved cooking tool: "My most beloved cooking tool is my mini offset spatula—from spreading peanut butter on toast to making swirls in hummus, it's my favorite underrated multitasker."