David Lebovitz

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David Lebovitz (born 1958) is an American author primarily known for writing about food. [1] [2] He worked as a dessert and pastry chef before starting to write cookbooks. [3] [4] [5] [6] He also wrote a memoir about his experiences buying and renovating an apartment in Paris. [2]

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In 1999, two years after Jim Leff and Bob Okumura founded Chowhound, the online discussion forum in 1997, Lebovitz launched his eponymous baking and desserts website. [7] Thus, he is considered one of the earliest, if not, the original "food blogger". [2] [8] [9] Lesley Chesterman wrote in NUVO in 2022: "Having launched his website in 1999, before food blogs really even existed, you could argue that Lebovitz all but created the genre." [2]

In addition to his food blog, [10] Lebovitz also publishes a subscriber newsletter on Substack. [11] The recipes in his books and on his blog are often reprinted (with permission) or adapted in food columns, [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] and he has been interviewed for articles in mainstream digital [12] [13] [17] and legacy media. [18] [14] [15] [16] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23]

Pre-Paris culinary career

Lebovitz, who was born in 1958 [24] and grew up in Connecticut, started working in restaurant kitchens while a teenager, including in upstate New York, USA. [8] [25] In the early 1980s, Lebovitz moved to San Francisco, California, where he worked as a line-cook, and then a pastry chef at the Berkeley restaurant, Chez Panisse, known for being an early advocate of farm-to-table cuisine. [8] [26] Lebovitz worked at Chez Panisse for thirteen years before launching his website and writing his first cook book. [27] [28] He moved to Paris, France in 2004. [8] [28] [29]

Food blogging in Paris

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Hazelnut Chocolate Chip Cookies from the Great Book of Chocolate

Since relocating to Paris, Lebovitz' has continued to blog about food. [30] [23] [31] [32] He has published eight cookbooks, [32] [33] and written guest columns for the Los Angeles Times and the Financial Times. [34] [35] In 2017, Lebovitz published a memoir recounting his experiences with the Parisian real estate market. [36]

Lebovitz' impact and influence on food blogs and blogging was discussed by Jennifer Lofgren in a 2013 journal article about how food blogs had evolved over the preceding twenty-five years. [37]

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