Gail Simmons

Gail Simmons
Born	Toronto, Ontario
Spouse	Jeremy Abrams

Gail Simmons is a trained culinary expert, food writer and television personality, and is the Special Projects Director with Food & Wine magazine. In addition to her role with Food & Wine, she is a regular judge on the television show Top Chef and hosts its spin-off, Top Chef: Just Desserts.

Prior to joining Food & Wine, Gail was the special events manager for Chef Daniel Boulud’s restaurant empire and worked for esteemed food critic Jeffrey Steingarten at Vogue.

She was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and graduated from McGill University, where she majored in anthropology and Spanish. She began her food journalism career writing restaurant reviews for the school paper before moving on to the monthly Toronto Life magazine and later to the daily National Post newspaper.

Simmons attended culinary school in New York City at the Institute of Culinary Education and apprenticed at Le Cirque and Vong.

Gail’s first book, her very own memoir titled Talking With My Mouth Full, will be published by Hyperion in February 2012.

Gail is an active supporter of Common Threads, an organization that teaches low-income children to cook wholesome and affordable meals. She was a founding member of Food & Wine’s Grow for Good Campaign to raise funds and awareness for sustainable agriculture programs in the United States. She also sits on the boards of City Harvest, Hot Bread Kitchen, the American Institute of Wine & Food, the Institute of Culinary Education’s Alumni Committee, and the Women at NBCU Advisory Board

She was selected for the 2010 Forward 50 by The Jewish Daily Forward.

External links

• Gail Simmons at the Internet Movie Database