Liz Alderman, in Paris, writes about European economics, finance and business for The New York Times. Earlier, she was an assistant business editor for The Times. She spent five years as business editor of The International Herald Tribune.
R. W. Apple Jr. (1934–2006) was a correspondent and editor at The New York Times for more than 40 years. Apple, known as Johnny, was bureau chief in Albany, N.Y., as well as Lagos, Nairobi, Saigon, Moscow, London and Washington. He also wrote frequently about food and wine, and a collection of his articles, Far Flung and Well Fed, was published posthumously (2009).
Eric Asimov has been chief wine critic at The New York Times since 2004. Asimov created the $25 and Under restaurant reviews and wrote them through 2004. He was editor of the Living section from 1991 to 1994 and editor of Styles of The Times from 1994 to 1995. His book How to Love Wine is to be published in 2012.
Barry Bearak, who has reported from southern Africa for The New York Times, won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for his “deeply affecting and illuminating coverage of daily life in war-torn Afghanistan.” He is now a sports reporter.
Pam Belluck is a science reporter for The New York Times. She is author of the book Island Practice: Cobblestone Rash, Underground Tom and Other Adventures of a Nantucket Doctor.
Corie Brown is a co-founder and general manager of Zester Daily, an online magazine featuring news and opinion about wine and food. She was a writer and editor at The Los Angeles Times and is writing a book about climate change and wine.
Patricia Leigh Brown has reported for The New York Times since 1987, first from New York and, since 2000, from San Francisco. Alice Waters once came to her house and, she says, redesigned “my family’s food life.”
Frank Bruni, an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times, has been its chief restaurant critic and Rome bureau chief. He is author of two Times best-sellers: Born Round, a memoir, and Ambling Into History, about George W. Bush’s presidential campaign in 2000.
Roger Cohen, a former foreign correspondent and foreign editor of The New York Times, is a columnist for the International Herald Tribune. He is author of Soldiers and Slaves: American POW’s Trapped by the Nazis’ Final Gamble.
Florence Fabricant, who has written about food and drink for The New York Times since 1972, is a member of its wine panel and devises the recipes to pair with the panel’s featured wines. She is the author, co-author or editor of 11 cookbooks, including The New York Times Seafood Cookbook, The New York Times Restaurant Cookbook, which contained wine suggestions for the recipes, and The New York Times Dessert Cookbook.
Howard G. Goldberg was an editor at The New York Times from 1970 to 2004. He spent 23 years at the Op-Ed page, where he was senior editor. He began contributing wine articles in the mid-1980s, and, in 1987, wrote the Wine Talk column for a period. In the 1990s he developed Wine Under $20, a feature published on Sundays for many years, and Long Island Vines, which still appears in the Long Island pages on Sundays.
William Grimes has been on the staff at The New York Times since 1989 and is currently a domestic correspondent. He has been the paper’s restaurant critic, a book reviewer, a culture reporter, an obituary writer and an editor on The New York Times Magazine. He has written several books on food and drink, most recently Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York.
Sarah Kershaw has been a New York Times reporter since 2000. She has covered many beats, and specializes in feature stories
Julia Lawlor, who lives in New Jersey, writes about food and travel.
Jen Lin-Liu founded the Black Sesame Kitchen, a Beijing cooking school, and is the author of Serve the People: A Stir-Fried Journey Through China. She is writing a book about the food of the Silk Road.
Harold McGee, who writes the Curious Cook column in The New York Times’s Dining section, is the author of On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen and Keys to Good Cooking: A Guide to Making the Best of Foods and Recipes.
Jesse McKinley is the San Francisco bureau chief of The New York Times. Earlier, he wrote about the arts.
Daniel Patterson is chef-proprietor of both Coi, a San Francisco restaurant, and Plum, an Oakland restaurant. He also writes for food publications.
Frank J. Prial introduced wine writing in The New York Times. His Wine Talk column, created in 1972, continued until 2004, interrupted by his stint as a Parisbased correspondent for The Times from 1979 to 1983. He also had a companion column in The New York Times Magazine. He retired in 2005. Prial has produced three books: Wine Talk, Companion to Wine and Decantations.
Evan Rail, a freelancer in Prague, writes about food and drink in Central and Eastern Europe. He is the author of Good Beer Guide: Prague and the Czech Republic.
Terry Robards was a reporter, foreign correspondent and editor for The New York Times from 1967 to 1983 and its wine columnist from 1979 to 1983. Robards wrote for Wine Spectator and Wine Enthusiast magazines. He has operated his own wine store in Lake Placid, N.Y., since 1988.
Kirk Semple joined The New York Times in 2003 and has been a foreign correspondent in Iraq and Afghanistan, a national correspondent in Miami and an immigration reporter in New York.
Jeffrey E. Singer is a New York interpreter and stringer who works for The New York Times
Warren St. John, a former New York Times reporter, is the author of Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer: A Journey Into the Heart of Fan Mania and Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman’s Quest to Make a Difference.
John Tagliabue, a longtime foreign correspondent for The New York Times, continues to report periodically for the paper from Europe.
Nicholas Wade, former science reporter for The New York Times, is author of The Faith Instinct, about the evolution and endurance of religion, and Before the Dawn, which reconstructs human prehistory.
John Noble Wilford, who retired as senior science correspondent at The New York Times, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for articles on science and planetary exploration, and shared a Pulitzer in 1987 with colleagues for coverage of the aftermath of the space shuttle Challenger disaster.
Alex Witchel, a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, writes the Feed Me column in the Dining section.