Besha Rodell Editor & Author

Besha Rodell is a James Beard Award-winning food writer, editor and restaurant critic who has been obsessed with eating out since she was a child. Born in Australia, in a bungalow on a farm her father dubbed "Narnia," she moved to the United States as a teenager. She has been writing professionally for more than two decades, and her work has appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, Food & Wine, Saveur, Bon Appetit, Travel & Leisure, PUNCH, Eater, Gravy, and many others. She was the restaurant critic at LA Weekly, and was a critic and columnist for The New York Times - she is still a regular contributor. In 2019 she was tapped by Food & Wine magazine to be their global critic, traveling the world solo to pick the world's best restaurants for an annual list. She is currently the chief restaurant critic at The Age, Melbourne, Australia's daily newspaper. Besha moved back to Australia in 2017, and lives in Melbourne with her husband Ryan, her parrot Chobi, and a rotating menagerie of foster cats.