Summer Rylander Title: Food, Kitchenware, and Travel Writer Expertise: Food, Kitchen Products, Coffee and Tea Tools, Breadmaking , Cheese, Cookware, Grilling Summer is a food and kitchenware writer whose work has been published in Food & Wine, Allrecipes, Serious Eats, Travel + Leisure, HuffPost, and more. She's an avid home cook and sourdough bread baker who enjoys testing kitchen tools, researching food history, and talking with culinary experts. Experience Summer is a food, cooking, and travel enthusiast who has been writing about food and kitchenware since 2018. Her expertise lies in cookware, bakeware, coffee and tea, grilling, and more. Summer has written about hundreds of products for Food & Wine, interviewing experts and offering her own expertise to the best in drip coffee makers, grills, small espresso machines, and bread machines, to name a few.She also enjoys researching food history and learning about destinations through culinary traditions. Summer moved from the United States to Germany in late 2015, and currently travels around Europe and eastern and southern Africa for her job. When she's not writing or traveling, she's often found in the kitchen, tinkering with cooking tools or fussing over a fermentation project. Her favorite brands include Le Creuset, Emile Henry, KitchenAid, Wüsthof, Zwilling, IKEA, and Braun.Summer's kitchenware motto: In general I find that having the right tool for the job makes everything more pleasant. About Food & Wine Food & Wine, a People Inc. Brand, is an award-winning online resource for anyone passionate about the culinary world. With rigorously tested recipes and the most trusted restaurant, drinks, culinary travel and home coverage, we inspire and empower people everywhere to discover, create, and devour the best in food and wine. Learn more about us and our editorial process.