Jeffrey Steingarten is one of the leading food writers in the United States. He has been the food critic at
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magazine since 1989. His monthly columns in
Vogue have earned him a National Magazine Award, and nearly a dozen
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s and nominations. William Rice of the
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named Steingarten “our most original and investigative food writer,” and has been hailed by the
Wall Street Journal as “one of
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’s first citizens.” His 1997 book of humorous food essays,
The Man Who Ate Everything, was awarded the 1988 Julia Child Book Award for literary food writing and named food book of the year by the British Guild of Food Writers.
Jeffrey Steingarten is one of the leading food writers in the United States. He has been the food critic at
VogueVogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine published in 16 countries + Latin America by Condé Nast Publications. Each month, Vogue publishes a magazine addressing topics of fashion, life and design.-Style and influence:...
magazine since 1989. His monthly columns in
Vogue have earned him a National Magazine Award, and nearly a dozen
James Beard AwardThis is a list of James Beard Award winners. The James Beard Foundation presents two awards yearly for Best Restaurant Review or Critique. One award is for newspaper writers and the other is for magazines. The past winners are:...
s and nominations. William Rice of the
Chicago TribuneThe Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company...
named Steingarten “our most original and investigative food writer,” and has been hailed by the
Wall Street Journal as “one of
gastronomyGastronomy is the study of the relationship between culture and food. It is often thought erroneously that the term gastronomy refers exclusively to the art of cooking , but this is only a small part of this discipline; it cannot always be said that a cook is also a gourmet. Gastronomy studies...
’s first citizens.” His 1997 book of humorous food essays,
The Man Who Ate Everything, was awarded the 1988 Julia Child Book Award for literary food writing and named food book of the year by the British Guild of Food Writers.
The Man Who Ate Everything has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Dutch, German, Portuguese, British and Czech.
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said of his book: “A wonderful book…brilliant…a triumph. Part cookbook, part travelogue, part medical and scientific treatise. Steingarten writes with marvelous ease, clarity, and humor.” Hendrick Hertzberg of the
New Yorker observes that his writing is “so well prepared, so expertly seasoned, and so full of flavorsome surprises is it that if it were a meal even Mr. Steingarten himself would have difficulty finding fault in it.”
In 2002, Steingarten published a second collection of essays entitled
It Must've Been Something I Ate. Both books are published by Knopf and Vintage. Steingarten’s pieces have also appeared in the
New York Times,
Men’s Vogue, and
Slate Magazine. Working with Ed Levine, he was co-host of the show,
New York Eats which aired from 1998-2000 on a local Metro channel. Steingarten frequently serves as a judge on the
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program
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.
His father was attorney Henry Steingarten, who represented, among his many clients, the rock and roll pioneer
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. Jeffrey Steingarten graduated from
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in 1965, and
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in 1968. He worked as assistant to Boston mayor Kevin White with future congressman
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. Steingarten departed from his legal career in 1989, joining
Vogue magazine as a food critic.
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On Bastille Day, 1994, in recognition of his writings on French gastronomy, Steingarten was made a
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in the
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by the Republic of
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.