Paul Levy (born 26 February 1941 in

Lexington, Kentucky Lexington is a city in Kentucky, United States that is the county seat of Fayette County. By population, it is the second-largest city in Kentucky and 57th-largest city in the United States. By land area, it is the country's 28th-largest ...

) is a US/British author and journalist. He lives with his wife, Penelope Marcus, and children in Oxfordshire and London, UK. With

Ann Barr Isabel Ann Barr (16 September 1929 – 4 May 2015) was a British journalist and writer involved in coining the terms Sloane Rangers and Foodies, in the early 1980s. Early life Isabel Ann Barr was born in London to Andrew and Margaret Barr, who ...

Article in Harpers & Queen, 1980/81 (and synchronically Gael Greene), he coined the word "

foodie A foodie is a person who has an ardent or refined interest in food, and who eats food not only out of hunger but also as a hobby. The related terms " gastronome" and "gourmet" define roughly the same thing, i.e. a person who enjoys food for plea ...

" (and some say exemplified the concept). He has won many British and American food writing and journalism prizes, including two commendations in the British Press Awards, in 1985 and 1987.

Education

Levy attended Lafayette High School, Lexington, KY;

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...

;

University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = ...

;

Harvard Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

(Ph.D. 1979);

Nuffield College, Oxford Nuffield College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. It is a graduate college and specialises in the social sciences, particularly economics, politics and sociology. Nuffield is one of Oxford's newer c ...

Work experience

Levy was Food and Wine editor for ''

The Observer ''The Observer'' is a British newspaper published on Sundays. It is a sister paper to ''The Guardian'' and '' The Guardian Weekly'', whose parent company Guardian Media Group Limited acquired it in 1993. First published in 1791, it is the ...

'' in the 1980s. He was subsequently arts correspondent for ''

The Wall Street Journal ''The Wall Street Journal'' is an American business-focused, international daily newspaper based in New York City, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese. The ''Journal'', along with its Asian editions, is published ...

'', where he reported to

Raymond Sokolov Raymond Sokolov (born 1 August 1941) is a U.S. journalist who has written extensively about food. He wrote the "Eating Out" column for The Wall Street Journal's weekend edition from 2006 until March 2010. Early life and education Sokolov grew u ...

, and ''Wall Street Journal Europe''. He blogs on culture at ArtsJournal.com/plainenglish, contributes food-related pieces to Travel + Leisure, and obituaries to the Independent. He is co-literary executor with

Michael Holroyd Sir Michael de Courcy Fraser Holroyd (born 27 August 1935) is an English biographer. Early life and education Holroyd was born in London, the son of Basil de Courcy Fraser Holroyd (a descendant of Sir George Sowley Holroyd, Justice of the Kin ...

Lytton Strachey Giles Lytton Strachey (; 1 March 1880 – 21 January 1932) was an English writer and critic. A founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and author of '' Eminent Victorians'', he established a new form of biography in which psychological insight ...

's estate,

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of the Strachey Trust,

Jane Grigson Jane Grigson (born Heather Mabel Jane McIntire; 13 March 1928 – 12 March 1990) was an English cookery writer. In the latter part of the 20th century she was the author of the food column for ''The Observer'' and wrote numerous books about Eu ...

Trust, and co-chair with

Claudia Roden Claudia Roden (née Douek; born 1936) is an Egyptian-born British cookbook writer and cultural anthropologist of Sephardi/ Mizrahi descent. She is best known as the author of Middle Eastern cookbooks including ''A Book of Middle Eastern Food'' ...

of the

Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery The Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery is an annual weekend conference at which academics, food writers, cooks, and others with an interest in food and culture meet to discuss current issues in food studies and food history. Overview The Sympo ...

Publications

*(ed.) ''Lytton Strachey: The Really Interesting Question'', 1972 *''Moore:

G.E. Moore George Edward Moore (4 November 1873 – 24 October 1958) was an English philosopher, who with Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein and earlier Gottlob Frege was among the founders of analytic philosophy. He and Russell led the turn from ideal ...

and the Cambridge Apostles'', 1979 *(co-ed. with

) ''The Shorter Strachey'', 1980 *(co-author with

) ''

The Official Foodie Handbook ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the ...

'', 1984 *''Out to Lunch'', 1986 *''Finger-Lickin' Good: A Kentucky childhood'', 1990 *''The Feast of Christmas'', 1992. Writer and presenter of 5-part Channel Four network/ABC (Australia)/CBC (Canada) TV series with same title *(ed.) ''The Penguin Book of Food and Drink'', 1996 *(ed.) ''

Eminent Victorians ''Eminent Victorians'' is a book by Lytton Strachey (one of the older members of the Bloomsbury Group), first published in 1918, and consisting of biographies of four leading figures from the Victorian era. Its fame rests on the irreverence and w ...

, The Definitive Edition'', 2002 *(ed.) ''The Letters of

'', 2005

References

External links

PaulLevy.com

Paul Levy interview
with

Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire is an Irish lecturer and professional chef. He was awarded Ireland's first PhD on food history, in October 2009. Life A native of Blackrock, County Dublin, he attended Coláiste Eoin secondary school in Stillorgan finis ...

(Oxford Oral History Project)
Oxfordsymposium.orgJaneGrigsonTrust.org
{{DEFAULTSORT:Levy, Paul 1941 births Living people American food writers American male journalists British male journalists Alumni of University College London Alumni of Nuffield College, Oxford Harvard University alumni Writers from Lexington, Kentucky Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature