Mark Bittman is a journalist, food writer, and author of 30 books, including the bestselling How to Cook Everything and VB6: Eat Vegan Before 6:00.
16 Facts About Mark Bittman
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Mark Bittman has been the recipient of International Association of Culinary Professionals, Julia Child, and James Beard awards for his writing.
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Mark Bittman was an Opinions columnist for The New York Times, a food columnist for the paper's Dining section, and the lead food writer for The New York Times Magazine.
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Mark Bittman hosted a weekly "Minimalist" cooking video on the New York Times website.
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Mark Bittman is a regular guest on NBC's The Today Show and the NPR shows All Things Considered and Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.
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Mark Bittman appeared as a guest judge on the Food Network competition series Chopped and was featured alongside Gwyneth Paltrow and Mario Batali in a PBS series called Spain.
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In 2014, Mark Bittman appeared as a correspondent for the climate change documentary show Years of Living Dangerously.
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In 2015, Mark Bittman announced he would be leaving the New York Times to join Purple Carrot as its chief innovation officer.
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In 2005 he published the books The Best Recipes in the World and Mark Bittman Takes on America's Chefs, and hosted the Public Television series Mark Bittman Takes on America's Chefs, which won the James Beard Award for best cooking series.
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Mark Bittman has written the books The Minimalist Cooks at Home, The Minimalist Cooks Dinner and The Minimalist Entertains.
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In 2010 Mark Bittman created The Food Matters Cookbook, an expansion of the principles and recipes in his prior book.
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Mark Bittman has authored VB6: Eat Vegan Before 6:00 and The VB6 Cookbook, where he recommends a flexitarian diet.
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Mark Bittman is a graduate of Stuyvesant High School and Clark University.
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Mark Bittman lived in Berkeley, California from 2015 to 2017 and has two adult daughters from a prior marriage.
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Mark Bittman runs marathons, is a licensed pilot, and now lives in Cold Spring, New York.
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Mark Bittman is Jewish, and his grandparents emigrated from Ukraine and Romania.