John Birdsall

Location: Oakland, California

Education: University of California, Berkeley

Expertise: Food culture

John Birdsall is a James Beard Award-winning writer based in Oakland, California.
He's co-author of the cookbook Hawker Fare and author of the James Beard biography The Man Who Ate Too Much.
His work has been published in Lucky Peach, the Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal Magazine, Saveur, Food & Wine, and Bon Appétit, in addition to Serious Eats.

Experience

John Birdsall writes about food and places and lives in Oakland, California, with his husband. He’s a two-time winner of the James Beard Award for food and culture writing and has been published in Lucky Peach, the Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal Magazine, Saveur, Food & Wine, and Bon Appétit, in addition to Serious Eats.

John is the co-author of the cookbook Hawker Fare: Stories & Recipes from a Refugee Chef's Isan Thai and Lao Roots (2018), and the author of the biography The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard (2020).

About Serious Eats

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