David Leite
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David Leite is a Portuguese American
food writer and the publisher and editor-in-chief of the two-time James Beard Award-winning website Leite's Culinaria.
, Massachusetts, and raised in Swansea
, Massachusetts.
Bon Appétit, Saveur, Food & Wine, Gourmet, Food Arts, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Chicaco Sun Times, The Washington Post, and other publications here and abroad. Leite won the 2008 James Beard Award for Best Newspaper Feature Without Recipes and is a four-time nominee for the Bert Greene Award for Food Journalism, which he won in 2006. He is also a recipient of several awards from the Association of Food Journalists. His work has been featured in Best Food Writing (ISBN 1-56924-416-2) ten times since 2001. Leite is a contributor to The Morning News
. He's also a frequent guest on the Today Show, Martha Stewart Radio program "Living Today" hosted by Mario Bosquez, Good Food with Evan Kleiman, and Connecticut Style and reads his essays and columns on public radio's food program "The Splendid Table hosted by Lynne Rossetto Kasper". In August 2009, his first book, "The New Portuguese Table: Exciting Flavors From Europe's Western Coast," was published by Clarkson Potter and won the 2010 First Book/Julia Child Award. A humorist, Leite brings a skewed and funny sensibility to the world of food.
, Connecticut. In 2004, he became citizen of Portugal.
Portuguese American
Portuguese Americans are citizens of the United States whose ancestry originates in the southwest European nation of Portugal, including the offshore island groups of the Azores and Madeira....
food writer and the publisher and editor-in-chief of the two-time James Beard Award-winning website Leite's Culinaria.
Early life
Leite was born in Fall RiverFall River, Massachusetts
Fall River is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, in the United States. It is located about south of Boston, southeast of Providence, Rhode Island, and west of New Bedford and south of Taunton. The city's population was 88,857 during the 2010 census, making it the tenth largest city in...
, Massachusetts, and raised in Swansea
Swansea, Massachusetts
Swansea is a town in Bristol County in southeastern Massachusetts.It is located at the mouth of the Taunton River, just west of Fall River, 47 miles south of Boston; and 12 miles southeast of Providence, Rhode Island....
, Massachusetts.
Career
He has written for the New York Times, Martha Stewart LivingMartha Stewart Living
Martha Stewart Living is a magazine and a television show featuring entertaining and home decorating guru Martha Stewart. Both the magazine and the television program focus on the domestic arts. Martha Stewart Living began as a quarterly magazine in 1990, published by Time Inc..and is currently...
Bon Appétit, Saveur, Food & Wine, Gourmet, Food Arts, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Chicaco Sun Times, The Washington Post, and other publications here and abroad. Leite won the 2008 James Beard Award for Best Newspaper Feature Without Recipes and is a four-time nominee for the Bert Greene Award for Food Journalism, which he won in 2006. He is also a recipient of several awards from the Association of Food Journalists. His work has been featured in Best Food Writing (ISBN 1-56924-416-2) ten times since 2001. Leite is a contributor to The Morning News
The Morning News (online magazine)
The Morning News is a U.S.-based daily online magazine founded in 1999 by Rosecrans Baldwin and Andrew Womack. It began as an email newsletter and in the fall of 2000 evolved into a news-oriented weblog with a New York focus...
. He's also a frequent guest on the Today Show, Martha Stewart Radio program "Living Today" hosted by Mario Bosquez, Good Food with Evan Kleiman, and Connecticut Style and reads his essays and columns on public radio's food program "The Splendid Table hosted by Lynne Rossetto Kasper". In August 2009, his first book, "The New Portuguese Table: Exciting Flavors From Europe's Western Coast," was published by Clarkson Potter and won the 2010 First Book/Julia Child Award. A humorist, Leite brings a skewed and funny sensibility to the world of food.
Personal life
Leite lives in New York City and RoxburyRoxbury, Connecticut
Roxbury is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 2,136 at the 2000 census.-History:Roxbury, whose Indian name was "Shepaug", a Mahican name signifiying "rocky water", was settled about the year 1713...
, Connecticut. In 2004, he became citizen of Portugal.