The Health Diaries

Why Great Jones Co-Founder Sierra Tishgart Makes a Habit of Cooking at Home

“I think something that really liberated me to cook more at home was learning that it doesn’t always have to be this perfect endeavor.”

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Within a year, Sierra Tishgart went from working as a senior food editor for New York magazine’s Grub Street to co-founding a cookware company called Great Jones. The idea for the company started with a basic problem: Tishgart needed to buy some new cookware that would last and look nice, but the choices were overwhelming and expensive. She and her co-founder, Maddy Moelis, thought they could simplify the process, and they did just that. The pair made Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list for their millennial-focused line of pots and pans that cost less than $145 apiece, and Great Jones now competes directly with leading cookware manufacturers like Le Creuset.

This week, Tishgart talks with Elemental about her puppy Hubble, her obsession with green tea, that one time she fell asleep in the middle of her own dinner party, and the joy of cooking at home even when your…