Ed Levine Biography
Ed Levine founded Serious Eats, wrote the entrepreneurial biography Serious Eater: A Food Lover’s Quest for Pizza and Redemption (Portfolio Penguin/Random House, 2019), and hosts the podcast Special Sauce.
Ed Levine Age
Ed was born on 27 January 1952, in the United States of America, he is 72 years old as of January 2024.
Ed Levine Education
Levine grew up in Cedarhurst, New York, before graduating from Fairfax High School in Los Angeles in 1969. He received a BA in music from Grinnell College in Iowa before earning an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1985.
Ed Levine Career
He was formerly a frequent contributor to The New York Times. His articles on classic American meals including pizza, hot dogs, hamburgers, ice cream, and cheesecake have featured in a variety of US publications, including GQ, BusinessWeek, and The New York Times. In 2016, Levine was named to the James Beard Foundation’s Who’s Who of Food and Beverage in America. PBS’s MediaShift has commended Serious Eats as “the next generation of food media.” In 1997, Gourmet editor Ruth Reichl described Levine as “the curator of New York’s far-flung food museum” and “a missionary of the delicious…on a crusade to see that the people who make food get the recognition they deserve.”
He started the podcast, Special Sauce. In 2015, Ed Levine interviewed chefs, restaurateurs, actors, and other cultural leaders about their relationship with food. The first episode includes a conversation with Phil Rosenthal, the creator of the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond. PRX produces Special Sauce.
Ed Levine Net Worth
Ed has an estimated net worth of 500 thousand dollars.