Ellie Martin Cliffe

Ellie Martin Cliffe

location-pin Milwaukee, WI

School: Carroll University

Expertise: Cooking techniques; cleaning & organizing; gardening & plant care; parenting

Ellie Martin Cliffe

  • 19 years in food and lifestyle publishing, including 13 years writing and editing for food titles; brands include Taste of Home, Simple & Delicious, Birds & Blooms, The Knot, The Nest, The Bump and Working Mother
  • Winner, FOLIO's Top Women in Media Award Up & Comer Category, 2020
  • Radio guest touting Simple & Delicious magazine, various stations, 2012-2015
  • Winner, Graduate of the Last Decade, Carroll University, 2010

Experience

Ellie has spent almost 20 years writing and editing food and lifestyle content for several well-known publishers. As Taste of Home's content director, she leads the team of editors sharing tasty recipes, cooking tips and entertaining ideas. Since joining Taste of Home 13 years ago, she has held roles in digital and print, editing cookbooks, curating special interest publications, running magazines, starring in cooking and cleaning videos, working with the Community Cooks and even handing out cookies and cocoa at local holiday events. Gluten- and dairy-free since 2017, she’s a staff go-to on allergy-friendly foods that actually taste good. If she's not in her plant-filled office, find Ellie in her family’s urban veggie garden, in the kitchen trying new GF/DF recipes or at a local hockey rink, cheering on her spouse or third grader.

Education

Carroll University, bachelor's in communications, journalism emphasis

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

Our Top 9 Christmas Recipes for 2022

Add one of this year's most popular Christmas recipes to your menu, and get ready to have the happiest holiday ever.

Watch Us Make: Pineapple Pecan Cheese Ball

Guests of all ages will appreciate the classic sweet-savory blend of peppers, onions and DOLE® Crushed Pineapple.

Watch Us Make: Pineapple Sweet Potato Casserole with Marshmallows

Your family won’t let you come to the feast without this sweet potato casserole. It's stuffed with DOLE® Crushed Pineapple, spices and marshmallows.