Mark Prigg
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Mark Prigg is a VP on the Commerce team overseeing the Food and Travel verticals. He joined Dotdash Meredith in 2021.
Highlights:
- Born in Caerphilly (unsurprisingly also home to his favorite cheese) Mark is a lifelong foodie who began his working life as a dishwasher, waiter, and terrible sommelier. Having grown up in Wales, he knows his bara brith from his cawl, and can make a mean toad in the hole.
- He’s also one of the few on the food team with experience cooking for gorillas, having spent six months in Cameroon working in a primate sanctuary, helping look after (and feed) gorillas orphaned by the bushmeat trade.
- A science and technology obsessive, he’s fascinated by the science of cooking, creating the perfect shot of espresso, and Neapolitan pizza. Despite having lived in the US for almost a decade, his go-to comfort food is beans on toast, and he has very strong opinions on how a cup of tea should be made.
Experience
Before joining Dotdash Meredith, Mark spent 25 years as a science and technology reporter and editor, working on newspapers including The Sunday Times, London Evening Standard and Daily Mail in London. He then moved to the US to work on Dailymail.com as their Science and Technology Editor, and has been in New York ever since.
Mark also worked at Red Ventures as an Editorial Director on their technology brands and has freelanced extensively for everyone from Wired and The Daily Telegraph to T3 and Business Traveller magazine.
Education
Mark attended the University of the Arts, London with a BA (Hons) in Journalism.
About Serious Eats
Serious Eats, a Dotdash brand, is an award-winning food and drink website visited by over 7 million hungry readers every month. Our audience comes to us for rigorously tested recipes, science-driven cooking techniques, robust equipment reviews, and stories that offer cultural and historical context to the foods we love to eat.
Dotdash is among the largest and fastest growing publishers online, and has won over 50 awards in the last year alone, including Digiday's 2020 Publisher of the Year. Dotdash brands include Verywell, Investopedia, The Balance, The Spruce, Simply Recipes, Serious Eats, Byrdie, Brides, MyDomaine, Lifewire, TripSavvy, Liquor.com, and TreeHugger.