
![]() Tanya Wenman Steel Editor-in-Chief, Epicurious.com Tanya Wenman Steel is Editor-in-Chief of the award-winning Epicurious.com, CondéNet's premier food Web site. This site incorporates articles and recipes from renowned food, drink, and style authorities around the world.
Prior to joining Epicurious.com, Ms. Steel was the New York Editor of Bon Appétit magazine for ten years. In addition to running the New York branch office, she wrote and edited columns and features, including the monthly "Restaurant Reporter." She was the founding columnist for "Starters" and was the longtime author of the annual "How America Eats Survey" and the "American Food and Entertaining Awards" articles. Ms. Steel won the prestigious James Beard Foundation Journalism Award for Magazine Restaurant Review or Critique, 2003. She is a member of the American Society of Magazine Editors and a James Beard Restaurant Judge. She has been in the publishing industry for 20 years. Prior to Bon Appétit, she was an editor at Diversion, Food & Wine, and Mademoiselle. Ms. Steel has also written extensively for many other publications, including The New York Times, New York Magazine, Travel & Leisure, Child, McCall's, Nick Jr., and Cosmopolitan. Ms. Steel frequently appears on television as an epicurean authority and has appeared numerous times on the Today Show, Weekend Today, and Today in New York, as well as Good Morning America, The Early Show, CNN, MSNBC, Fox, the Food Network, Iron Chef, Master Chef, Inside Edition, Access Hollywood, QVC, ABC News Now, Live at Five, New York Live, and other national shows. She has also done countless media satellite tours. Ms. Steel has a bachelor's degree in English from the New School University. She is the coauthor of Real Food for Real Kids, to be published by HarperCollins in the fall of 2008. Born in London, Steel grew up in New York City and now resides in Westchester with her husband, a history teacher, and identical twin boys. |
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