Alicia Rooker, RDN

Experience

Alicia, a registered dietitian nutritionist, is living her dream of being Taste of Home’s Recipe Editor and Tester. Armed with a dietetics degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a food science background, Alicia balances her time testing readers’ recipes and writing some of her own. When she’s not in the Test Kitchen, she enjoys planting native flowers and raising monarch butterflies with her son.

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

The Best Bread Machines for All Types of Bakers

Make baking easy with a bread maker. Our Test Kitchen tried 10 different brands to find the best bread makers for all kinds of bakers.

The Best Mandoline Slicers, According to Our Test Kitchen

Make prep work a breeze with the best mandoline slicer. Our Test Kitchen team put nine popular brands to the test to find their top picks.