Lizzy Saxe

Not to brag, but I'm kind of a huge nerd.​

I'm a natural entrepreneur and analysis enthusiast. I sold homemade bread in college. I'm a Culinary Institute of America dropout.

I studied Din Tai Fung's international branding (and wrote an academic paper on food and the Game of Thrones fandom) in grad school and have written for Forbes, Vice, Eater, Food & Wine, Majuscule, and Literary Hub about food, stories, and the human condition. My essay “On Colonial Nostalgia and Food in Fantasy Writing,” was listed as notable in Best American Food Writing 2021. I’ve had dinner with Steve Buscemi, I’m a former LARP kid, and I have a garlic tattoo.

I grew up in the vast urban sprawl of LA and found myself in the icy embrace of Beloit, Wisconsin for college. Then, I went to culinary school for a month, dropped out, and moved to Manhattan for grad school at NYU, after which I was the Editorial Director of a startup called Dorsia.io (yes, it was named after the restaurant from American Psycho.)

Now, I live in Brooklyn, and when I'm not writing I work with food brands of all kinds to tell their own stories through everything from their menus to their marketing.