Jeffrey Steingarten

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.

Son of property lawyer Henry Steingarten, Jeffrey Steingarten graduated from Harvard Law School in 1968, and became assistant, with future Congressional representative Barney Frank, to Boston mayor Kevin White. He later managed the unsuccessful New Jersey Congressional primary campaign of Lewis Kaden, whom he met in law school. Kaden is now Vice Chairman and Chief Administrative Officer of Citigroup. In recognition for his writings on French gastronomy he was made a Chevalier in the Order of Merit in 1994 by the Republic of France.

Bibliography

*Collected in: "American Food Writing: An Anthology with Classic Recipes", ed. Molly O'Neill (Library of America, 2007) ISBN 1598530054
*Collected in: "Penguin Book of Food and Drink", ed. Paul Levy (Viking, 1996) ISBN 067085266X