
Gourmet Makes consistently trended on YouTube and developed a cult following on social media. In July 2017, Gourmet Makes debuted, in which Saffitz attempted to recreate or elevate popular snack foods such as Doritos, Twinkies, and Gushers. She returned in November 2018 as a freelance recipe developer and video host. Saffitz joined Bon Appétit in 2013, starting as a recipe tester and working her way up to being a senior food editor, where she remained until August 2018, when she left her full-time position at the magazine. After a four-month externship at Spring Restaurant, Saffitz moved to Montreal, Québec, where she received a master's degree in history at McGill University in 2013, with a focus on French culinary history in the early modern era. history and literature, then studied French cuisine and pastry at École Grégoire-Ferrandi in Paris, France. She went on to attend Harvard University, graduating in 2009 with an AB in U.S.

She attended Captain Elementary and graduated from Clayton High School in 2005. In the early 1900s, her great-grandfather emigrated to the United States from what was then Russia but is now Ukraine before emigrating, he worked as a baker. Louis, Missouri, to an Ashkenazi Jewish family. She has continued work as a video host on her own YouTube channel and as a freelance recipe developer, including for New York Times Cooking. Since leaving the company, she has published two cookbooks, Dessert Person and What's for Dessert, which both became New York Times Best Sellers.
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Until mid-2020, she was a contributing editor at Bon Appétit magazine and starred in several series on the Bon Appétit YouTube channel, including Gourmet Makes, in which she created gourmet versions of popular snack foods by reverse engineering them.

Claire Saffitz (born 1986) is an American food writer, chef, and YouTube personality.
