Jennifer Clair is the founder of Home Cooking New York, a recreational cooking school for home cooks in New York City. Before launching the school in 2002, she was a Recipe Editor for The Wall Street Journal and a Food Editor at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSLO), where she developed cookbooks and managed the Cooking & Entertaining department of marthastewart.com. Prior to MSLO, she worked in the cookbook division of William Morrow & Company and at Saveur magazine. She graduated from Peter Kump’s New York Cooking School in 1998 after receiving a full James Beard Foundation scholarship. She began her culinary career as the assistant to renowned cookbook author and food historian Joan Nathan. Jennifer is also the author of Six Basic Cooking Techniques: Culinary Essentials for the Home Cook (2018) based on the school’s most popular cooking class, and the host of the cooking podcast, Kitchen Radio.

Erica Wides joined Home Cooking New York in 2014 after 15 years of teaching at the Institute of Culinary Education where she oversaw the culinary education of both professional and recreational students. She is brimming with knowledge of all things food and is one of the go-to chefs when the media needs an expert to demystify what “real food” really means.

She has graced the sets of Chopped, Dr. Oz, and TedX, and now fills the radiowaves with guest spots on NPR’s All Things Considered, Martha Stewart Morning Living, and through her former radio show Let’s Get Real. She is the creator and host of Funny People Making Food.