KC Hysmith, PhD is a Texas-bred, North Carolina-based writer, editor, food scholar, and recipe developer, with a background in food photography and styling. She writes about the intersection between food, gender, the history of technology and the digital landscape. Her writing and work have appeared in Eater, Food52, Gastronomica, The Boston Globe, The Local Palate, and more. She cowrote The Saltbox Seafood Joint Cookbook, served as the associate editor of Edible North Carolina: A Journey Across a State of Flavor, and the historical editor for When Southern Women Cook: History, Lore, and 300 Recipes from Every Corner of the American South. She also served as the co-editor of An American Girl Anthology coming out Spring 2025. When she's not writing or in the cookbook archives, she likes to create bite-sized bits of food history for social media.
