About
When she was young, Liz Johnson hated lima beans, onions and liver. Despite growing up in Texas, she wasn't too keen on spicy food, either. Time abroad in France taught her to love stinky cheese, and traveling through Asia and living in Mexico showed her the error of her non-spicy ways.
Liz graduated from Clarkstown South High School in West Nyack, N.Y., and got her English degree at SUNY Oswego, where she mostly subsisted on pizza and beer. Since then, her culinary palate has vastly improved. (In fact there's nothing she won't taste at least once.)
Since she began writing about food for The Journal News in 2000, she's covered restaurants, cooking trends and cocktails - winning two best feature-writing awards from the Association of Food Journalists along the way. She was also a television food correspondent for "The Hudson Valley's NewsCenter Now," on RNN, the Regional News Network, and the editor of the annual Wine & Food magazine.
She's now a blogger and producer at Small Bites, the food editor of The Journal News and LoHud.com, a James Beard Foundation restaurant awards judge and a contributor to the food pages of national and regional magazines. She's won a best newspaper food section award from the AFJ and was honored by the Associated Press with an award for niche web site for LoHud.com/food.
She lives in Nyack with her husband on a tiny suburban lot they call their farm - with four fruit trees, an herb garden, and a yardful of lettuce, tomatoes, onions, shallots, cucumbers, zucchini, radishes, cabbage, peppers, Brussels sprouts, green beans, carrots, currants, elderberries, gooseberries, huckleberries and four big blueberry bushes.
