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Ed Levine (born January 27, 1952) is a New York-based food writer and blogger, and a frequent New York Times contributor. Events 98 - Trajan becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva. Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The terms food critic, food writer, and restaurant critic can all be used to describe a Writer who analyzes food or Restaurants and then publishes A blog (a contraction of the term " Web log " is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary descriptions of His stories on iconic American foods such as hot dogs, hamburgers, ice cream and cheesecake have appeared in many U. The cuisine of the United States is a style of food preparation derived from the United States. S. periodicals, including GQ, BusinessWeek and the New York Times. GQ (originally Gentlemen's Quarterly) is a monthly men's Magazine focusing upon Fashion, style and culture for men through articles BusinessWeek is a business Magazine published by McGraw-Hill.

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Education

Levine grew up in Cedarhurst, New York, and graduated from Fairfax High School in Los Angeles in 1969. He attended Grinnell College in Iowa with a BA in Music, and in 1985, earned his MBA from Columbia Business School. Grinnell College is a private liberal arts college in History Alonzo Barton Hepburn, then president of Chase Manhattan Bank, founded the School in 1916 with 11 full-time faculty members

Food criticism

Levine's first book New York Eats was a guide to New York City's best non-restaurant food called New York Eats. Published in 1992, Levine’s research stretched back to the 1970s. A follow-up, New York Eats (More), was published in 1997. In 2005, he commemorated pizza's centennial in America by consuming 1,000 slices of pizza for Pizza: A Slice of Heaven, which also includes cartoons, poems, and essays about pizza by writers and chefs, including Nora Ephron, Garry Trudeau, Calvin Trillin, Ruth Reichl, Mario Batali, and Roy Blount Jr. Nora Ephron (born May 19 1941) is an American Film director, producer, Screenwriter, Novelist, and Garretson Beekman Trudeau (born July 21, 1948) is an American Cartoonist, best known for the Doonesbury comic strip Calvin (Bud Marshall Trillin (born December 5, 1935 in Kansas City Missouri) is an American Journalist Ruth Reichl (born January 16 1948 in New York City) was an American food writer the editor-in-chief of ''Gourmet'' magazine co-producer Mario Batali (b September 9, 1960) is an Italian American Chef, restaurateur, TV host and Writer. Roy Alton Blount Jr (born October 4, 1941; IPA: blʌnt is an American writer His most recent book, The Young Man and the Sea was published in May 2007, a collection of more than 100 seafood recipes and fisherman stories from Chef David Pasternack of New York's Esca. Levine has also written many food pieces for the New York Times.

In December 2006, he founded the food website Serious Eats, covering cultural trends within the food community, chef gossip, restaurant reviews and message dialogue among readers, involving blogs, video, social network, and community-created food content. Regular columnists on the site include Batali and cookbook author Dorie Greenspan. He is known by his colleagues and staff as the Serious Eats Overlord.

Serious Eats has been praised by PBS’s MediaShift as “the next generation of food media. ”[1] In 1997, Gourmet editor Ruth Reichl called Levine “the curator of New York's far-flung food museum” and “a missionary of the delicious…on a crusade to see that the people who make food get the recognition they deserve. ”[2]

Television and Radio

As a television personality, Levine is currently the co-host and consulting producer for “Reservations Required” on the Ultra HD Channel. He also created, co-produced and co-hosted (along with Vogue magazine food critic Jeffrey Steingarten) “New York Eats” for the Metro Channel. Jeffrey Steingarten is an American lawyer and culinary critic/columnist. As a former radio producer, Levine created and hosted “Dish” for WNYC, New York’s NPR affiliate, which was twice nominated for James Beard Awards for Electronic Media.

Music

Levine has also co-produced records for Dr. John and written about music for Rolling Stone and the New York Times. Dr John (also Dr John Creaux) is the Stage name of Malcolm John Rebennack Jr Rolling Stone is a United States -based Magazine devoted to Music, Politics, and Popular culture that is published

Selected writings

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ "Serious Eats: Food Media 2.0", Jennifer Woodard Maderazo, July 27, 2007
  2. ^ "Critic's Notebook; On an Odyssey With the Homer Of Rugelach", Ruth Reichl, New York Times, November 12, 1997

External links

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