[1] She studied chemistry at Indiana University before earning a degree in creative writing at Columbia College Chicago.

[citation needed] Regan worked as a waitress and as a cook in several fine-dining restaurants in Chicago, including Trio, Schwa, and Alinea under Grant Achatz and Michael Carlson.

Elizabeth features home-grown and foraged ingredients, originally served multi-course prix fixe menus at three 8-seat communal tables in the style of Regan's supper club.

In 2019, Regan and her wife Anna opened The Milkweed Inn, in Nahma Township in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

[10] The Milkweed Inn hosts 10 guests each weekend April through October at $750 to $1750 per person for a "new gatherer" culinary experience.

A 2019 weekend "starts with pierogi and smoked lake trout on Friday and peaks on Saturday with a 15-course dinner that might include wild blueberries in juiced wood sorrel, young milkweed pods fried until the insides turn as silky as cheese, and moose tartare.

"[1] In it she describes incidents "before she got sober 10 years ago, ran away from the police in handcuffs, had sex in bar bathrooms and used her car key to administer bumps of cocaine.