Jeff Gordinier, Sommelier

Jeff Gordinier's work has won a National Magazine Award, the James Beard Foundation's M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award, and a prize for food writing from the New York Press Club. During the past two decades he has specialized in covering food — as a reporter for The New York Times and then as the food & drinks editor of Esquire magazine. Over the years he has contributed to publications such as Food & Wine, Entertainment Weekly, Outside, Fast Company, Town & Country, Air Mail, Alta Journal, Artful Living, and the Globe & Mail. He is the author, most recently, of the 2019 book Hungry, a portrait of chef René Redzepi of Noma in Copenhagen. Gordinier has appeared in both the Evan Funke and Jeong Kwan episodes of the Netflix series Chef's Table — the latter of which won a James Beard Foundation award in 2018 — and in Phil Rosenthal's Netflix series Somebody Feed Phil. He lives in Los Angeles. You can find him on Instagram at @thegordinier.