Joshua Ozersky

Who is Joshua Ozersky?

Joshua Ozersky is an American food writer and historian. He first came to prominence as a founding editor of New York magazine's food blog, Grub Street, for which he received a James Beard Foundation Award in 2008. He is the author of several books, including "The Hamburger: A History", "Meat Me In Manhattan: A Carnivore's Guide to New York" and "Archie Bunker's America: TV in an Era of Change, 1968–1978". Currently, he writes for Esquire, The Wall Street Journal, RachaelRay.Com, and The New York Observer, among other places. He often writes about meat and meat cookery, and has called himself "Mr. Cutlets," after a minor character in Herman Melville's story, "Bartleby, the Scrivener." Although read primarily as a food writer, he has said in numerous public appearances that he disliked "food writing" as such, and that his strongest influences have been G.K. Chesterton, Thomas Babington Macaulay, and A.J. Liebling.