Name Paul Levy Role Author | TV shows Food and Drink | |
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Books The Official Foodie Handboo, The Madness of George, The Turtle Who Lost His Shell, Negotiating Environmental Agreeme, River Queen Similar People Ann Barr, Lytton Strachey, Simon Bates, Jilly Goolden, Antony Worrall Thompson |
A conversation with paul levy awaken in the dream
Paul Levy (born 26 February 1941 in Lexington, Kentucky) is a US/British author and journalist. He lives with his wife, Penelope Marcus, and children in Oxfordshire and London, UK.
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- A conversation with paul levy awaken in the dream
- Awakened by darkness by paul levy
- Education
- Work experience
- Publications
- References

With Ann Barr (and synchronically Gael Greene), he coined the word "foodie" (and some say exemplified the concept). He has won many British and American food writing and journalism prizes, including two commendations in the national British Press Awards, in 1985 and 1987.
Awakened by darkness by paul levy
Education
Levy attended Lafayette High School, Lexington, KY; University of Chicago; University College London; Harvard (Ph.D. 1979); Nuffield College, Oxford.
Work experience
Levy was Food and Wine editor for The Observer in the 1980s. He was subsequently arts correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, where he reported to Raymond Sokolov, 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 of Lytton Strachey's estate, trustee of the Strachey Trust, Jane Grigson Trust, and co-chair with Claudia Roden of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery.