Bettina Makalintal

Senior Reporter, Eater.com | Brooklyn, NY

Bettina Makalintal is a senior reporter at Eater.com where she covers trends in home cooking, restaurants, and online food culture. A Filipino American food and culture writer born in Manila, raised outside Philadelphia, and based in Brooklyn, before joining Eater she worked as an associate print editor at Bon Appétit and as a staff writer at Vice's Munchies. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Bicycling, The Boston Globe, The Cut, and NPR’s The Salt. Bettina is a frequent guest on podcasts from TASTE to Slate. @bettinamak