Jeffrey Steingarten

Jeffrey L. Steingarten (* 1945 in Hewlett Neck, Long Iceland, New York) is an American lawyer and food critic. Rockery was popular due to its gastrosophischen columns in the fashion magazine Vogue, which he published in books.

Biography

Rock garden grandfather was a grocer in the Lower East Side in New York City, his father worked as a lawyer for property law. He grew up with his sister Lois in Hewlett Neck, NY in Nassau County on. During a trip to France with his parents, his interest in the culinary arts was awakened with a soufflé. He studied law at the Harvard Law School to the exam in 1968. During the period of his studies, he discovered his pleasure in humorous writing and was editor of the satirical magazine Harvard Lampoon university. In the 1960s he was a regular viewer of the first American cooking show with Julia Child. Your studio was at his study in Cambridge, he cooked their meals after and bought the ingredients where they shopped too. This resulted in a lifelong friendship developed.

1977 gave him the present Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Barney Frank, as an assistant for the former Boston Mayor Kevin White. He has done research first about the relationship between poverty and mental health legislation. He then practiced as a lawyer in Manhattan. With increasing professional success he could afford to take a culinary tour around the world. He was known in 1988 with the British journalist Anna Wintour by friends who was the chief editor of the magazine House & Garden at that time. They agreed that he should write an article with 500 to 800 words on the question of whether fish can actually be cooked in a microwave oven. After trying twelve flock, his attachment grew to 4200 words, but what Wintour accepted. When she joined Vogue in 1989, gave rock garden at his office and from then on worked as a food critic at Vogue. Since 1996, he also writes for the online magazine Slate.

Rock garden created reports on his culinary travels and visits many chefs. Yet he does not consider himself a gourmet snob who is only fond of Gourmandise ( gluttony ), but also confronted with food that had him first counter (eg Gimchi ). In his essays, he also describes the attempts of duplicating the special dishes and perfect (eg Turducken, coq au vin, etc. ). He also tells the story of various famous food (eg Caesar Salad ). Rockery pursuit of culinary perfection is so pronounced that he also uses a lot of time and effort to search for the best in each ingredient (eg, types of salt ) or the best preparation of a particular food (eg baguettes ). Therefore star in the German magazine his essays have been read as " research reports " rock garden is "an Alexander von Humboldt 's Culinary, following a delicacy chewing and tasting to the source. "

Not only his columns found a lot of interest, but also his personality became the subject of reports. In the TV cooking show Iron Chef America, he performs regularly as a jury member, where he assessed with accuracy and vehemence of the courts of the chefs. In 1998 he was on the jury of the " Grand Prix de la Baguette » de la Ville de Paris. His German colleague Jürgen Dollase critic praises the one hand, his detailed knowledge and entertaining style, but missed in rock garden spinning tales sobriety and objectivity. Wolfram Siebeck, however, holds rock garden style and " in-depth " information for " self-evident, journalistic virtues, one would think that you would find, however, not necessarily in our gourmet magazines or in the newspaper. "

In 1977 he married Caron Smith, she took a position at the 1998 San Diego Museum of Art, where she worked as a curator of Asian Art. She now works at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York. Rockery lives in New York's Flatiron District, a neighborhood in Manhattan. In his loft not only be cooking laboratory, but also a comprehensive gastrosophische library with 15 m length and 4.50 m in height and another book stacks is housed.

Awards

Works

• The Man Who Ate Everything. Vintage, New York 1998, ISBN 0-375-70202-4, (English )
• It Must've Been Something I Ate. Knopf, New York 2002, ISBN 0-375-41280-8 (English )
• The man who eats everything. Records of food lovers. Rogner & Bernhard, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-8077-0089-7
• The man who eats everything. Second course. News from the infamous gourmet. Rogner & Bernhard, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-8077-1014-0

Quote

" This gentleman has everything good American journalism distinguished. Facts wealth, self-irony, wit, imagination, art formulation without Verblasenheit "