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Emily Johnson

Associate Director, Commerce

Since joining Epicurious in 2017, Emily has learned to throw better dinner parties, cooked lots of solo dinners, and fed unsuspecting friends and family members lots of cream cheese in various forms. She now strategizes and edits shopping stories across both Epi and CondĆ© Nast’s other food brand, Bon AppĆ©tit. Before coming to Epicurious, Emily was at Lucky Peach and studied literature at The New School.

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