James Oseland Biography
James Oseland is a writer, editor, and television personality from the United States. He has edited several best-selling and award-winning cookbooks and anthologies, including Saveur: The New Comfort Food, A Fork in the Road, and Saveur: The New Classics.
How old is James Oseland? – Age
He is 60 years old as of February 9, 2023. He was born in 1963 in Mountain View, California.
James Oseland Family
Lawrence Oseland worked in office product sales, while Bernice Oseland was a homemaker and secretary. He moved a lot as a kid. He grew up in Sunnyvale, California, Mercer Island, Washington, Yukon, Oklahoma, Buffalo Grove, Illinois, St. Paul, San Carlos, California, San Francisco, and New York City, among other places. He started at San Carlos High School in 1977 and came out to his parents as gay the following year.
James Oseland Partner
In 1977, he came out to his parents as gay.
James Oseland Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $6 Million.
James Oseland Top Chef
From 2009 through 2013, Oseland was a judge on the hit Bravo television show Top Chef Masters. Top Chef Masters is an American reality competition series that debuted on the cable network Bravo on June 10, 2009. It is a spinoff of the popular Bravo show Top Chef. Chefs battle against each other in weekly challenges in the series. The show differs from Top Chef in that it showcases younger professional cooks who are still on the rise in the food service sector.
James Oseland Books
Cradle of Flavor: Home Cooking from the Spice Islands of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, a memoir and cookbook highlighting culinary cultures from the Spice Islands since 1982, is written by Oseland. The book was favorably commended when it was published in 2006 by W.W. Norton for its investigation of ingredients, techniques, and eating habits, as well as anecdotes from Oseland’s 20-year voyage. The New York Times, Time Asia, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, and Good Morning America all rated it one of the finest novels of 2006.
Jimmy Neurosis, Oseland’s next book, describes his difficult adolescence and engagement in grassroots punk rock movements between 1977 and 1980. The book was described by Publishers Weekly as “stunning, heartbreaking, inspiring, wild, and thrilling.” The Los Angeles Times lauded the book for its universality, which linked the writer’s experiences to the reader’s experiences, eventually establishing a common humanity.
Oseland has also edited several books, including Saveur: The New Comfort Food (2011), Saveur: The Way We Cook (2012), Saveur: The New Classics (2014), and A Fork in the Road (2013), a food-writing anthology that won a James Beard Award and a Travel Writers Foundation Lowell Thomas award.
James Oseland Career
In 1990, Oseland began working in journalism as a proofreader at the LA Weekly. In 1993, he got back to New York City, where he stood firm on article footings that went from duplicate supervisor to overseeing proofreader; somewhere in the range of 1993 and 2006 he worked at different distributions, including Vogue, Natural Style, television Guide’s Big name Dish, Energy, Break New York, Cheeky, American Theater, The Town Voice and Mademoiselle. From 1996 to 1998 he was a theater pundit for Break New York. For his theater criticism, he received a Jerome Foundation fellowship administered by American Theatre magazine in 1997. He was promoted to managing editor of American Theatre a year later.
He worked as a writer and photographer for Saveur, a food magazine that has been called “the National Geographic of food” from 1997 to 2006. In 2006, he became leader supervisor then proofreader in-head of the magazine. The publication experienced unprecedented expansion under his editorial direction; During his tenure as editor, subscription renewal rates were among the highest in the American magazine industry. He established and regulated the distribution’s Blog Grants also its acclaimed video series. Saveur received more than 45 awards during his tenure from a variety of organizations, including the American Society of Magazine Editors, the James Beard Foundation, the International Association of Culinary Professionals, and the Society for Newspaper and Magazine Design. He has also served as a judge on NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice and the Food Network’s Iron Chef America, and he has made frequent appearances on NBC’s The Today Show, ABC’s Live with Kelly and Ryan, which was formerly The Kelly and Michael Show, He appeared in a series of Wendy’s commercials in 2013 as himself.
While an understudy at the San Francisco Workmanship Establishment, Oseland made eight exploratory movies, including Fisherisms (1980) and From an Image of Insects (1983). Among other places, his films have been shown at the Cinematheque in San Francisco. In 1984, his work procured him awards from the Jerome Establishment as well as the Western States Local Media Partnership, an award program directed by the Public Enrichment for Human expression.
Oseland was an actor in the films Dracula’s Widow (directed by Christopher Coppola in 1988), Liquid Dreams (directed by Mark Manos in 1991), and Guncrazy (directed by Tamra Davis in 1992). Additionally, he has appeared in a number of underground films, including Agent of Paradise (1984), Ascension of the Demonoids (1985), and Cupid’s Infirmary (1993), all directed by George Kuchar.
From 1987 to 1993, Oseland was involved in the experimental theater scene in Los Angeles. He appeared in Taxi Dance (1989, Kelly Stuart), Place (1990, Robert Hummer), and The Interpreter of Horror (1991, Kelly Stuart) at the CAST Theater and Padua Hills Playwright Festival (Padua Playwrights). Oseland has been a visitor on in excess of 100 radio projects, including PRI’s The Magnificent Table and WNYC’s Leonard Lopate Show. He also hosts the Food Traveler show on WHDD.