Clay Gordon

Location: Larchmont, New York
Education: Rhode Island School of Design
  • Clay is the creator and moderator of TheChocolateLife, one of the world’s largest online communities for chocolate. He serves as the chief correspondent for TheChocolateWire, an online resource for the specialty/craft cocoa and chocolate industry.  
  • Clay wrote the chocolate connoisseur’s guide Discover Chocolate: The Ultimate Guide to Buying, Tasting, and Enjoying Fine Chocolate (2007).  
  • He was awarded a Recognition of Excellence by the Fine Chocolate Industry Association in 2019.


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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.

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