Recipes Need a "Lightbulb Moment," says Emily Weinstein, Editor-in-Chief of New York Times Cooking and Food

With 24,000 recipes in the NYT Cooking database, this high-powered editor knows what she wants from them -- and writers

Emily Weinstein, editor-in-chief of New York Times Cooking and Food, and head of the NYT Cooking app. (Photo by Rachel Vanni.)

One morning, I opened my email and found a paid subscription from Emily Weinstein. I gasped! What a huge compliment.

Emily is in charge of everything you see in the New York Times food section: recipes, reviews, features; and th…