Hi there. I'm a Brooklyn-based features editor at Eater.com, where I primarily edit long-form stories exploring the way food intersects with culture, society, politics, and identity. Previously, I was a freelance writer and editor who wrote predominantly about food and culture. I also used to be the food editor at San Francisco magazine and a reporter and research editor for The Village Voice, New York, and Elle. My writing has appeared in publications including The New York Times, T: The New York Times Style Magazine; The New Yorker online, Taste, The California Sunday, New York, Saveur, WIRED, The Wall Street Journal, Elle, Lucky Peach, and The Art of Eating.

My essay “From Sex Cake to Spurned Salad,” written for Gilt Taste, won the 2013 IACP Bert Greene Award for Culinary Memoir. And my story  “The Toxic, Abusive, Addictive, Supportive, Codependent Relationship Between Chefs and Yelp,” written for San Francisco, won the 2015 James Beard Foundation Journalism Award for Food and Culture. I've also co-written two cookbooks: The Big Gay Ice Cream Book (Clarkson Potter, 2015) and The Basque Book(Ten Speed Press, 2016), and worked as a developmental editor and proposal writer.

In another lifetime, I worked as a cook and baker at a few different establishments, and graduated from the French Culinary Institute, where I spent six months carving potatoes into minute football shapes and sweating profusely over a ragingly hot stove. If you’d like to pitch me, you can do so at rebecca@eater.com.