14 Facts About Josh Ozersky

1.

Joshua Ozersky was an American food writer and historian.

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2.

Josh Ozersky 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.

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3.

Josh Ozersky was Editor-at-Large for Esquire, writing about food and restaurants.

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4.

Josh Ozersky moved to Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1979 when his father, the painter David Ozersky, got a job as a stage technician in the first of the area's casino-hotels, Resorts International.

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5.

Josh Ozersky attended Atlantic City High School and Rutgers University.

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6.

Josh Ozersky was a great gastronome and taught me to self-medicate my loneliness with steaks and sausages.

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7.

Subsequent to "Meat Me in Manhattan"'s publication, Josh Ozersky was a contributing restaurant critic for Newsday, and wrote regularly for the website Slashfood and the New York Law Journal.

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8.

Josh Ozersky became the founding editor of New York Magazine food blog Grub Street, a position he held until 2008, when he moved over to Citysearch as National Restaurant Editor.

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9.

Josh Ozersky wrote the "Taste of America" column for Time from 2010 to 2012.

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10.

Essays by Josh Ozersky were included in "The Best Food Writing" anthologies of 2009,2012 and 2014.

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11.

In 2010, Josh Ozersky was criticized by Robert Sietsema for writing about his wedding in Time without disclosing that the chefs who participated donated the food as wedding gifts.

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Josh Ozersky defended himself, saying that the chefs involved were among his closest friends, and that the most prominent of them, Michael White, had his daughter in the wedding party as a flower girl.

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13.

Josh Ozersky was found and pronounced dead in his Conrad Chicago hotel room on May 4,2015, while in the city for the James Beard Foundation Awards.

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14.

Josh Ozersky was the founder of Meatopia, a large meat-centric outdoor culinary event, which has been held in New York City for the past ten years.

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