Betty Liu

Betty Liu is a cookbook author, photographer, and doctor. She is an avid home cook with a passion to demystify Chinese cooking in a modern kitchen. Betty started writing about the Chinese homecooking she grew up with as a Chinese-American on her award-winning blog bettysliu.com and found joy in making and documenting food. Since then, her writing, photography, and recipes have been featured on sites such as Bon Appétit, Epicurious, and The New York Times. Her critically acclaimed debut cookbook, My Shanghai, was published in March 2021 and praised as one of The New York Times Best Cookbooks of 2021. She lives in Boston with her husband, Alexander Xu, and their dog, Annie, in Boston, where she is completing her surgical training.