ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sam Sifton is the food editor of The New York Times, a columnist for The New York Times Magazine, and the founding editor of the Times’s Cooking section, an award-winning digital cookbook and cooking school. Formerly the newspaper’s national news editor, chief restaurant critic, and culture editor, he is the author of See You on Sunday and Thanksgiving: How to Cook It Well. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children.