David Leite

David Leite (b. Fall River, Massachusetts) is a Portuguese American food writer and the publisher and editor-in-chief of the two-time James Beard Award-winning Web site Leite's Culinaria.

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He has written for the New York Times, Martha Stewart Living, Bon Appétit, Saveur, Food & Wine, Gourmet, Food Arts, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Chicago 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) 2001 to 2008. Leite is a contributor to The Morning News. He's also a regular guest on the Martha Stewart Radio program "Living Today" hosted by Mario Bosquez 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," will be published by Clarkson Potter. A humorist, Leite brings a skewed and funny sensibility to the world of food.