Maite Gomez-Rejon

Since 1995, Maite Gomez-Rejón has worked in the education departments of museums such as New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art,  the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and J. Paul Getty Museum, has taught art history at the college level, and has worked as a private chef.
 
A native of South Texas, Ms. Gomez-Rejón earned a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin, an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Grand Diplome from the French Culinary Institute (now the International Culinary Center) in New York City.
 
While researching a medieval tapestry at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, she came across a group of medieval cookbooks, and her interest in culinary history began. From that moment on she couldn’t look at a portrait without wondering what the person portrayed had eaten—and get hungry. She founded ArtBites in 2007 in an effort to combine her two passions and has since been weaving art and culinary history with hands on cooking instruction at museums across the country.
 
Her blog, Cooking Art History, appears in The Huffington Post. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their two dogs.