The Book of Eating
Adventures in Professional Gluttony
A wildly hilarious and irreverent memoir of a globe-trotting life lived meal-to-meal by one of our most influential and respected food critics
As the son of a diplomat growing up in places like Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan, Adam Platt didn’t have the chance to become a picky eater.
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About Adam
Adam Platt has been the chief restaurant critic and professional glutton in residence for New York magazine since 2000. Mr Platt is the son of a US diplomat (note — we can link to the NY mag excerpt on eating w my dad which is coming out nxt week) and a graduate of the American School in Japan, where worked on the school paper and spent a year riding the bench as the backup center for the champion ASIJ Mustangs basketball team (link?). He is also a graduate of Columbia University’s Journalism School and perhaps the only working food critic ever to earn a degree at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.
During the course of a paripatetic, well travelled career in the magazine business, Mr. Platt has contributed to many publications as a contract writer and staffer including Esquire, The New York Observer, Conde Nast Traveler (link to stories) and the New Yorker (link to stories if possible). His writing has been nominated for various awards over the years, and he won the James Beard Award for his restaurant reviews in 2009. Adam lives in Greenwich Village with his wife and two diminutive, pizza-loving daughters. You can read his work online @nymag and follow his social media musings @plattypants on Instagram and Twitter.
