Bridget Lancaster

Bridget Lancaster, deputy editor of Cook's Country magazine, joined the Cook's team in 1998 and is responsible for all recipe testing and development in Cook's Country. She has worked on many of the company's cookbook projects and is also an on-screen test cook for America's Test Kitchen. She is also a cast member of the new TV show, Cook's Country, which aired with its first season in September 2008. Her career led her to work in various kitchens in the South and Northeast, concentrating on pastry, and she has also taught culinary classes and given live cooking demonstrations. Bridget's husband, Stephen, is a professional chef, and along with their two sons, they enjoy working on their favorite hobby—barbecue.

Julia Collin Davison

Julia Collin Davison is Executive Food Editor for the book division of America’s Test Kitchen and is an on-screen test cook for America’s Test Kitchen and Cook’s Country from America’s Test Kitchen. She began working as a test cook for Cook’s Illustrated in 1999 and is responsible for the food and recipe development for all America’s Test Kitchen cookbooks. She holds an A.O.S. degree from the Culinary Institute of America and a B.A. in psychology and philosophy from SUNY Albany. Before coming to America’s Test Kitchen, she worked in Albany, the Berkshires, San Francisco, and the Napa Valley at several restaurants, catering companies, schools, and wineries. Julia resides in Natick, Mass., where she enjoys cooking with her husband, Ian, and her daughter, Marta.

Rebecca (Becky) Hays

Rebecca (Becky) Hays joined Cook’s Illustrated in 2000 and has worked on various magazine, book, and website projects. She is the managing editor of Cook’s Illustrated and on-screen test cook for America’s Test Kitchen. A graduate of the Natural Gourmet Institute for Food and Health in Manhattan, Rebecca has worked in several professional kitchens and taught cooking classes to adults. Prior to her work in the food industry, Rebecca spent several years working on a securities trading floor. She holds degrees in economics and French from Fairfield University in Connecticut. She lives in Bedford, Mass., with her husband, Chris, and her son, Nate.

Bryan Roof

Bryan Roof is a senior editor for Cook’s Country and is an on-screen test cook for America’s Test Kitchen. He began working as a test cook for Cook’s Illustrated in 2006 and has worked on various magazine, book, and website projects. He holds an A.A.S. degree from Johnson and Wales University and a B.S. in food and nutrition from Framingham State University, and is a registered dietitian. Bryan’s culinary career took him into the kitchens of some of the East Coast’s best restaurants before landing in Boston in 2001. He lives in Arlington, Mass., with his wife, Cristina, and budding foodies Nolan, Layla, and Tanner.

Dan Souza

Dan Souza is a senior editor of Cook’s Illustrated and an on-screen test cook for America’s Test Kitchen. In addition to his work on Cook’s Illustrated, Dan has contributed content to a dozen America’s Test Kitchen cookbooks, most recently executing and editing the test kitchen experiments for The Science of Good Cooking (October 2012). Dan cut his culinary teeth as an apprentice in Hungary before graduating first in his class from the Culinary Institute of America (CIA). After cooking in restaurants in New York City and Boston, however, he found his true calling: applying good science to create great recipes for the home cook.

Jack Bishop

Jack Bishop is the editorial director of America’s Test Kitchen. He joined the staff of Cook’s Magazine in 1988 and helped with the launch of Cook’s Illustrated in 1993. He established the tasting protocols used in America’s Test Kitchen and has authored dozens of articles for the magazine. Jack directed the launch of Cook’s Country magazine and oversees editorial operations at both magazines. He is the tasting lab expert on America’s Test Kitchen, the top-rated public television cooking show, now in its 13th season, and Cook’s Country from America’s Test Kitchen. Jack edited The Best Recipe (1999) and established the book division at America’s Test Kitchen. He is the author of several cookbooks, including A Year in a Vegetarian Kitchen, Vegetables Every Day, The Complete Italian Vegetarian Cookbook, Pasta e Verdura, and Lasagna. Jack’s wife, Lauren Chattman, is a cookbook author and former pastry chef. They have two daughters.

Adam Ried

Adam Reid is the keeper of the Equipment Corner on America’s Test Kitchen and Cook’s Country from America’s Test Kitchen. During his 10-year tenure as an editor for Cook’s Illustrated, Adam developed and edited recipes, wrote feature stories, and contributed to many other sections of the magazine, including the popular Quick Tips. Adam bore primary responsibility for Cook’s Illustrated’s highly respected kitchen-equipment testing and ingredient-tasting features. Now a contributor to Cook’s Country magazine and the cooking columnist for the Sunday Boston Globe Magazine, Adam has taught cooking and food writing, written for local, national, and international publications; and consulted for restaurants, kitchen-equipment manufacturers, and other food-related businesses. He is a graduate of Macalester College and the culinary certificate program at Boston University.

John “Doc” Willoughby

John "Doc" Willoughby was the original executive editor of Cook’s Illustrated when the magazine was founded in 1993. In 2001, he moved to New York to take the job of executive editor at Gourmet magazine, a position that he held until the fall of 2009. In February 2010, he returned to America’s Test Kitchen to assume the job of executive editor for magazines. John is also the coauthor, with chef Chris Schlesinger, of nine cookbooks, including the award-winning The Thrill of the Grill and How to Cook Meat. He has taught graduate-level courses in food writing at both Boston University and the Radcliffe Seminars at Harvard College, as well as at the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone. John has written about food and travel for a wide range of national magazines; presently writes the “Power Ingredients” column for the New York Times Dining section, and has lectured widely on food, politics, and culture.

Lisa McManus

Lisa McManus is a senior editor in charge of equipment testing and ingredient tasting at Cook’s Illustrated and Cook’s Country magazines. She researches and writes about kitchen gear and food, and she’s the on-screen gadget guru for America’s Test Kitchen. She joined America’s Test Kitchen in 2006, after working as a newspaper food editor and a magazine and newspaper journalist in Boston, New York, and Palo Alto, California. She is a graduate of Brown University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Lisa is married to a rocket scientist, who is pretty nice about answering questions about thermal conductivity and other science topics 24 hours a day. They have two sons.

Guy Crosby

Guy Crosby is the science adviser for America’s Test Kitchen. He began working for Cook’s Illustrated as a consulting editor in early 2005. While living in California during the 1970s, Guy developed an interest in the chemistry of food, which soon became the focus of his long professional career. He worked as a scientist and research director in the agricultural-products and food-ingredients businesses for more than 30 years. Guy earned a B.S. in chemistry from the University of New Hampshire and a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Brown University, and he has been a postdoctoral research associate and part-time instructor of chemistry at Stanford University. Guy is a full-time associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Food Science at Framingham State University and serves as an adjunct associate professor of nutrition with the Harvard School of Public Health. Guy also serves as an external adviser for the new, first-of-its-kind EcoGastronomy program at the University of New Hampshire. Since launching his second career in education in 2003, he has taught food science to more than 300 students. He has been married to Christine for more than 43 years, has two grown children, Kristin and Justin, and has a charming granddaughter named Grace. Guy is a professional member of the Institute of Food Technologists and a popular local speaker on the science of cooking.