Benjamin Mott

Benjamin Mott is a professional cook, recipe tester, and book editor with three decades of experience in narrative nonfiction and cookbook publishing. Based in New York City, he prepares food in his compact home kitchen, where healthy ingredients, simple recipes, and the practical concerns of hustling two kids off to school each day with their bellies full shaped his routines over the years. A commitment to the use of fresh, farm-to-table ingredients (and to avoiding prepared foods as much as possible) led him to adopt a similar approach to cleaning. Now he fully embraces the cost savings, health benefits, and awesome cleaning properties of the many natural, nontoxic ingredients hiding in plain sight in his kitchen pantry.