A new collection of provocative essays from the food critic of Vogue describes his remarkable love affair with food and his compulsive quest to find out how, why, and what we eat, in such pieces as "Who Is Having All the Fun?," "Don't Believe a WoIt Must'Ve Been Something I AteSteingarten, JeffreyRandom House IncPublication 2003/10/01Number of 513Binding PAPERBACKLibrary of 2002024676
Jeffrey Steingarten is an American lawyer and culinary critic/columnist. He is a regular columnist for Vogue magazine. He has also written for Slate. His 1997 book of food-related essays, The Man Who Ate Everything, is a Julia Child Book Award winner and was also a James Beard Book Award finalist. In 2002, Steingarten published a second collection of essays entitled It Must've Been Something I Ate. Working with Ed Levine, he was host of the show, "New York Eats" which was broadcast from 1998-2000 on local area Metro TV (a local station that only broadcasts in the New York City area.) The show consisted of taste tests, restaurant reviews, and the cooking and eating of famous chefs' recipes. Steingarten frequently serves as a judge on the Food Network show Iron Chef America, and is known for his sharp confrontations with the other judges.