Liz Cook

Liz Cook is a freelance food writer and editor.

She has served as the restaurant critic for The Pitch since 2016 and also contributes to publications such Eater, Midwesterner, Bon Appetit, and Defector. Her writing has been anthologized in Best American Food Writing and received awards from the Association of Food Journalists and the Association of Alternative Newsmedia.

In her free time, she writes the experimental food newsletter Haterade, exploring everything from garlic-bread chapstick to edible packing peanuts to the history of the appletini.

You can find Liz on social media @lizcookkc (Instagram and Twitter if it still exists by the time we get this page published...)