15 Facts About Joshua Ozersky

Joshua Ozersky was an American food writer and historian.

Joshua 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.

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

Joshua 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.

Joshua Ozersky attended Atlantic City High School and Rutgers University.

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

The first articles he was paid to write appeared in a short-lived satirical weekly called "The Hoboken Review," based in Hoboken, NJ, where Joshua Ozersky lived at the time.

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

Joshua 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.

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

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

In 2010, Joshua 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.

Joshua 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.

Joshua 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.

Joshua 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.