Vogue magazine’s food critic since 1989, Jeffrey Steingarten has won numerous James Beard awards and nominations, written wildly popular books, been awarded the Julia Child Book Award for literary food writing and was made a Chevalier of the Order of Merit by the Republic of France in appreciation for his writing about French cuisine.
While an undergraduate at Harvard, Jeffrey worked on The Harvard Lampoon and went on to Harvard Law School. He worked in politics as an assistant to the mayor of Boston. During his ICWA fellowship in 1973–1976, he investigated intersections between psychiatry and law. He left law in the late 1980s, but still serves as a judge on Iron Chef America.
Jeffrey’s book The Man Who Ate Everything (1997) has been translated into multiple languages, from Chinese to Czech. He published his second essay collection, It Must’ve Been Something I Ate, in 2002.