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Kim Bussing

location-pin Tucson, AZ

School: University of Arizona

Expertise: Baking; beer, wine & cocktails; product testing; cleaning & organizing; home decor; health & wellness; food news; grocery shopping; restaurants; travel

Kim Bussing

  • 10 years of experience covering food and drink with an emphasis on wine and cocktails
  • Written numerous guides about gift baskets and care packages for all occasions, interviewing gift experts and relationship experts to find the perfect present
  • Written numerous holiday guides on food, wine, Advent calendars, and more
  • Creative consultant for hospitality and food companies including a vegan meal delivery company and a small cookie bakery
  • Former editor at Queensland Magazines
  • Writer for Taste of Home, Clean Plates, Modern Farmer, Reader's Digest and Seattle Refined

Experience

Kim is a writer and creative strategist with more than a decade of experience publishing content about food and drink. She has written about food and wine for top brands, including Hilton, Marriott, and KitchenAid. Kim also writes about health and wellness topics, home decor and baking. For Taste of Home, she’s tackled stories about canned wines, cocktail kits, wine Advent calendars and much more. Kim’s passion is bringing together nutrition and joy in every meal and she’s always on the hunt for the perfect gluten-free cinnamon roll. Her first series, The Princess Swap, is forthcoming from Penguin Random House in 2025.

Education

  • Georgetown University, bachelor's degrees in English, psychology and business administration
  • University of Arizona, master's in fiction

Taste of Home Editorial Policies

Taste of Home, a Trusted Media Brand, has been a reliable source for recipes, cooking tips and entertaining advice for more than 30 years. Every month, our content inspires well over 20 million home cooks to get creative in the kitchen. Each one of our 40 thousand recipes has gone through a rigorous testing and approval process to ensure we’re sharing the very best. Every snack, ingredient and product we recommend is tested by our team of culinary experts and professional product testers—the best of the best earn our Test Kitchen-Preferred seal of approval. Learn more about Taste of Home and our Test Kitchen and editorial teams.

Articles & Recipes

Cuisinart Pellet Grill Review

Cuisinart Pellet Grill Review: A Modest Option for Beginner Pitmasters

The compact Cuisinart pellet grill is a budget-friendly option for most backyards. Here's what our Product Testing Team liked about this no-frills option.
Yoder Pellet Grill

Yoder Pellet Grill Review: A Compact (Yet Powerful) Smoker

With the Yoder Pellet Grill, price and quality go hand in hand—it may be one of the more expensive pellet grills we experienced first-hand, but it won us over as the best heavy-duty option we tested
Recteq Flagship 1100 Pellet Grill

RecTeq Pellet Grill Review: Our Product Testing Team’s Favorite Smoker

Discover the best of the best—our testing team ranked the RecTeq Flagship 1100 as our overall favorite pellet grill after in-depth testing and cooking many pounds of meat