Zeide was born on April 23, 1984,[1] and raised in a rural and forested region of Arkansas.
[6][7] She won a James Beard Award in the Reference, History, and Scholarship category for Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry.
[8] Zeide and her work has been featured on WORT,[9] KPFA,[10] BYU Radio,[11] WYPR,[12] KERA,[13] and the New Books Network,[14] and in the Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies,[15] Stillwater News-Press[16] and The O'Colly.
[17] Her work about botulism has been published in the Saturday Evening Post and Smithsonian.
[18][19] In 2020, Zeide left Oklahoma to become an associate professor of history at Virginia Tech and the founding director of their Food Studies Program.