Alyse Whitney

Content & Social Media Specialist, Culinary Institute of America; Cookbook Author, Big Dip Energy (Los Angeles, CA)

Alyse Whitney is the Dip Queen and author of cookbook Big Dip Energy. She has been cooking ever since she could reach the countertop and spent most of her fifteen-year journalism career in food magazines (Bon Appétit, Rachael Ray Every Day, Cherry Bombe), entertainment publications (TVLine, POPSUGAR, Glamour, The Hollywood Reporter), and food-focused brands (Cooking Channel and Cravings by Chrissy Teigen). She's currently Content & Social Media Specialist for the Culinary Institute of America and columnist for SAVEUR ("Amused Bouche") and was previously Cosmopolitan’s first-ever food columnist ("Doing the Least With Alyse"). She also hosted and judged on TV shows including Netflix’s Easy-Bake Battle, Pressure Cooker, and The Big Nailed It! Baking Challenge, and Food Network’s Chopped, and appeared on The Kelly Clarkson Show, Access Hollywood, and more. She's a Korean American adoptee, raised in Binghamton, NY, and now resides in Los Angeles with her two rescue pups, Miso and Ritz. (Instagram: @alysewhitney)