Jay Rayner

Jay Rayner is an award-winning writer, journalist and broadcaster. He currently writesfor the Observer, a national British Sunday newspaper, where he is their restaurant critic as well as a feature writer. In addition to working for newspapers Jay has written for numerous magazines, including Granta, Esquire, GQ and Cosmopolitan and is currently contributing to Gourmet in the US. Since winning Young Journalist of the Year in 1992 he has also been named critic of the year in both the Glenfiddich Food and Drink Awards and the British Press Awards. Jay is also the author of four novels and two works of nonfiction. His latest is The Man Who Ate The World, a non-fiction account of his pursuit of the perfect meal in the new breed of luxury restaurants that have spread around the globe.