Corby Kummer

Education

Yale University.

Career

He is a senior editor at The Atlantic magazine, where he writes a monthly food column, restaurant critic for Boston magazine. He has been called "a dean among food writers in America" by The San Francisco Examiner. Julia Child once said of him, "I think he"s a very good food writer

He really does his homework.

As a reporter and a writer he takes his work very seriously." He lives in Boston, Massachusetts. Kummer attended high school at Loomis Chaffee, a private boarding school in Windsor, Connecticut until 1974 and Yale University from 1974 to 1978.

In 1981, he joined The Atlantic, where he still works. In 1995 and 1996, he was a restaurant critic for New York magazine, leaving in 1997 to write restaurant reviews for Boston.

Achievements

• Kummer is the winner of five James Beard Journalism, presented by the James Beard Foundation for food writing. His most recent was in 2008. He has been a finalist for the National Magazine He is a program advisor for Yale Publishing Course.

Works

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• book

  • The Joy of Coffee: The Essential Guide to Buying, Brewing, and Enjoying - Revised and Updated
  • The Pleasures of Slow Food: Celebrating Authentic Traditions, Flavors, and Recipes
  • The Joy of Coffee: The Essential Guide to Buying, Brewing, and Enjoying - Revised and Updated by Corby Kummer (2003-08-19)