Bettina Makalintal
Senior Reporter
Bettina Makalintal is a senior reporter at Eater.com, whose areas of coverage include food in pop culture, restaurant and retail trends, and online food culture. Previously, she was an associate print editor at Bon Appétit and a staff writer at Vice's Munchies. Before writing full-time, she worked multiple roles in the service industry.
This Is Not a Tomato
It’s "Loewe tomato" summer. Of course trompe l’oeil tomato dishes have made it onto restaurant menus.
Which Crab Dip Recipe Is Worth the Splurge?
If I’m spending $25 on eight ounces of lump crabmeat, I want to taste it
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The Expansive Evolution of the Queer Cookbook
If Alice B. Toklas’s "Cook Book" and "The Queer Cookbook" represent two ends of the spectrum for how queerness once existed in cookbooks, today’s cookbooks take advantage of the vast middle ground