About Me: Liza Mosquito de Guia | Founder/Filmmaker

Hi there. I’m Liza de Guia. A documentary food storyteller. Most people call me Skeeter. Welcome.

I’m the creator, host, and filmmaker behind food. curated., an award-winning documentary series exploring the chefs, farmers, and food makers who shape how we eat. For more than 15 years, I’ve spent my time moving through kitchens, bakeries, farms, and food labs with a camera in hand, capturing the human stories behind craft, culture, and creativity in food.

The series began back in 2009, long before food documentaries were common on the internet. What started as a small passion project, a scrappy video blog built on curiosity and hustle, has grown into a James Beard Award-winning, Emmy-nominated series seen on television and online around the world. In 2026, food. curated. enters its biggest chapter yet with a national launch on public television distributed by American Public Television.

At its heart, the show has always been about people.

I love sitting across from someone who has poured their life into a craft. A passionate dumpling maker rolling dough inside a windowless kitchen basement. A farmer describing soil like it is poetry. A chef chasing a flavor memory of his ancestors. Those conversations are where the real magic lives. My job is simply to listen, observe, and translate those moments into stories that help audiences understand the deeper meaning behind the food we love.

Before launching food. curated., I worked in television marketing at ABC Network, managing brand partnerships and product integrations for primetime and Disney programming. After taking a sabbatical to travel the world, including some memorable scuba diving adventures, I returned to storytelling as a food host and reporter for Plum TV in the Hamptons. While filming “What’s Fresh?”, a hyper-local farm-to-table series, I discovered something that changed my life. Food stories are really human stories.

That realization eventually led to the creation of food. curated., and I have been chasing great stories ever since.

Liza de Guia | Key Partnerships & Awards

Over the years, the series has partnered with media outlets including The New York Times, BravoTV, Food & Wine, NY1, Slate, Chowhound, and Huffington Post, while also airing for multiple seasons on NYC Media (Channel 25). Along the way, the work has received honors from the James Beard Foundation, the NY Emmys, the Webby Awards, Saveur Magazine, the Taste Awards, The Village Voice, and the NYC Food Film Festival, among others. Because of these achievements, I was also able to fulfill a bucket-list dream to speak on The Magic of Storytelling for TEDTalks, which you can watch below.

As for milestone projects, I co-hosted a wildly entertaining underground food show w/Executive Chef Russell Jackson for BravoTV called “Going Off the Menu” – which took home a TasteTV achievement award in 2016 for food programming. Filmed & directed “Chef Lab” for HLN – The Headline News Network, an in-depth documentary food series about innovative chefs. I also participated in a major brand partnership with Progresso soups, hosting a 7-part “Behind the Bowl” documentary series about the history of the Progresso brand.

For much of its life, food. curated. has also been a one-woman production. I research, film, direct, and edit many of the stories myself. What began out of necessity became one of the defining qualities of the series. Working this way allows me to build trust with the people I film and create the kind of intimacy that makes these stories feel personal.

What keeps me going is simple. Curiosity. And joy.

Food is one of the most powerful ways culture shows up in everyday life. It reveals history, migration, resilience, creativity, and community. Through these films, I hope to shine a light on the people proudly shaping our food future and inspiring viewers to seek them out, support them, and build a better food future with their fork!

So thank you for being here.

Whether you are a chef, food lover, writer, brand, or fellow storyteller, I am always excited to connect, collaborate, and share ideas.

Because in my world, all good food has a story.

And we should tell more of them.

Warmly,
Liza de Guia

Eat more stories.

PS: About the nickname Skeeter. It comes from my middle name, Mosquito, which is my mom’s maiden name.

You can email me at lizadeguia (at) gmail.com, chat with me on Instagram or Threads (I’m @SkeeterNYC or @FoodCurated), or find me on Facebook. I look forward to hearing from you!