Dan Souza is executive editor of Cook’s Science at America’s Test Kitchen. He is an on-screen test cook for America’s Test Kitchen and a weekly contributor to America’s Test Kitchen Radio.

A former senior editor for Cook’s Illustrated, Dan has contributed content to a dozen America’s Test Kitchen cookbooks, including executing and editing the test kitchen experiments for the New York Times bestseller The Science of Good Cooking and Cook’s Science.

Dan cut his culinary teeth as an apprentice in Hungary before graduating first in his class from the Culinary Institute of America. 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.