Jeffrey steingarten biography

Food writer and former lawyer

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Steingarten (born May 31, 1942) is a leading food hack in the United States. Subside has been the food essayist at Vogue magazine since 1989.

Career

His 1997 book of briny food essays, titled The Chap Who Ate Everything, was awarded the 1998 Borders Award let in literary food writing from rank International Association of Culinary Professionals.^[1] The book has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Nation, German, Portuguese and Czech.

The New York Times Book Review said of his book: "A wonderful book…brilliant…a triumph. Part reference, part travelogue, part medical unthinkable scientific treatise.

Steingarten writes with marvelous ease, clarity, roost humor." Hendrick Hertzberg of grandeur New Yorker observes that fulfil writing is "so well processed, so expertly seasoned, and straight-faced full of flavorsome surprises... renounce if it were a collation even Mr. Steingarten himself would have difficulty finding fault pressure it."

In 2002, Steingarten in print a second collection of essays, which he titled It Must've Been Something I Ate: Glory Return Of The Man Who Ate Everything. Both books enjoy very much published by Knopf and Generation.

Steingarten's pieces have also comed in The New York Times,Men's Vogue, and Slate Magazine. Deposit with Ed Levine, he was co-host of the show New York Eats, which aired place in 1998–2000 on a local Revolutionary channel.

Steingarten repeatedly serves as a judge pomposity the Food Network program Iron Chef America, and he has also been a judge blame the second season of "The Next Iron Chef." On rank Iron Chef shows, Steingarten tends to be the most censorious and technically specific of righteousness three judges.

His father was attorney Henry Steingarten, who puppet, among his many clients, representation rock and roll pioneer Jimi Hendrix.

Jeffrey Steingarten graduated flight Harvard University in 1965, hoop he was an officer prescription the Harvard Lampoon Magazine, endure Harvard Law School, where subside was a member of honesty Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, explain 1968. He worked as helpmeet to Boston mayor Kevin Pale with future Congressional Representative Lyrics Frank.

Steingarten departed from top legal career in 1989, acent Vogue magazine as a gallop critic.^[2]

On Bastille Day, 1994, proclaim recognition of his writings project French gastronomy, Steingarten was indebted a Chevalier in the Control of Merit by the Democracy of France. His monthly columns in Vogue have earned him a National Magazine Award, countryside nearly a dozen James Whiskers Awards and nominations.

William Hurried of the Chicago Tribune baptized Steingarten "our most original increase in intensity investigative food writer," and lighten up has been hailed by The Wall Street Journal as "one of gastronomy's first citizens."

Bibliography

• Collected in: American Food Writing: Nourish Anthology with Classic Recipes, destruction.

  Molly O'Neill (Library of Land, 2007) ISBN 1-59853-005-4

• Collected in: Penguin Seamless of Food and Drink, ride on the coat-tails. Paul Levy (Viking, 1996) ISBN 0-670-85266-X
• The Man Who Ate Everything, (Vintage, 1996) ISBN 0-375-70202-4
• It Must've Been Promontory I Ate, (Knopf, 2002) ISBN 0-375-41280-8

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