Helen Rosner

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Helen Rosner
Born
Chicago, Illinois
Education Smith College
OccupationFood writer
Employer The New Yorker
Awards James Beard Foundation Award (2016, 2024, 2025)

Helen Rosner is an American food writer and editor. She is food correspondent for The New Yorker and winner of three James Beard Foundation Awards.

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Education

Rosner graduated from Smith College with a degree in philosophy in 2004. [1]

Career

Rosner is food correspondent for The New Yorker. [2] From 2014 to 2017, she was an editor at Eater, [3] serving as long-form features editor and later executive editor. She joined Eater after spending four years as executive digital editor at Saveur . [4] [5] [6] Prior to that, she was online restaurant editor for New York Magazine and an assistant cookbook editor at Workman. [7] With Raphael Brion, she co-founded the food blog Eat Me Daily, which "carved out a vital place in a crowded food blog world by being smarter, wittier, and faster than everyone else," according to Rosner's colleague, Eater co-founder Lockhart Steele. [8] Rosner and Brion initially wrote the blog under pseudonyms. [8] Rosner's essay "On Chicken Tenders," published in Guernica, won the 2016 James Beard Foundation Journalism award for Personal Essay. [9] [10]

When Rosner tweeted about a roast chicken recipe using a hair dryer to dry the chicken before cooking, [11] this drew many responses, including criticism that she responded to with details about the technique. [12]

In 2018, Rosner was nominated for the James Beard Foundation M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award for her piece, "Christ in the Garden of Endless Breadsticks." [13] In 2024 she won the Beard Craig Claiborne Distinguished Criticism Award [14] and in 2025 won a Beard award for her profile of Padma Lakshmi. [15]

References

  1. ↑ "Helen Rosner '04 Wins 2025 James Beard Media Award". www.smith.edu. Retrieved 2025-08-21.
  2. ↑ Dai, Serena (2018-01-08). "New York City Officially Has a New Food Critic". Eater NY. Archived from the original on 2018-01-08. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  3. ↑ Horgan, Richard (2017-05-09). "Helen Rosner Takes On New Role at Eater". AdWeek. Archived from the original on 2017-12-26. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  4. ↑ Kludt, Amanda (2014-07-15). "Helen Rosner IN as Eater Features Editor (Send Pitches)". Eater. Archived from the original on 2018-07-03. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  5. ↑ Swallow, Erica. "Saveur.com Editor Helen Rosner - Exclusive Interview". Pursuitist. Archived from the original on 2018-07-03. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  6. ↑ Wilson, Dede (2014-11-09). "The Helen Rosner Interview". Bakepedia. Archived from the original on 2015-07-07. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  7. ↑ Hoffman, Maggie. "Helen Rosner's Favorite Cookbooks". Serious Eats. Archived from the original on 2018-03-26. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  8. 1 2 Steele, Lockhart (2014-09-05). "Farewell, Raphael Brion: A Tribute to the Legend". Eater. Archived from the original on 2018-07-03. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  9. ↑ "The 2016 Beard Award Winners!". James Beard Foundation. Archived from the original on 2016-07-11. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  10. ↑ Sytsma, Alan (2016-04-27). "Here Are the 2016 Winners of the James Beard Foundation's Media Awards". Grub Street. Archived from the original on 2018-07-03. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  11. ↑ Rosner, Helen (2018-03-23). "Yes, I Use a Hair Dryer to Make Roast Chicken—Here's the Recipe". The New Yorker. ISSN   0028-792X. Archived from the original on 2018-03-26. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  12. ↑ Robin, Marci (2018-03-24). "Food Writer Reveals a $400 Hair-Dryer Is Her Secret for Perfectly Roasted Chicken". Allure. Archived from the original on 2018-03-24. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  13. ↑ "The 2018 James Beard Award Nominees". www.jamesbeard.org. Archived from the original on 2018-03-14. Retrieved 2018-07-03.
  14. ↑ "The 2024 James Beard Media Award Winners". www.jamesbeard.org. Retrieved 2025-08-21.
  15. ↑ "The 2025 James Beard Media Award Winners". www.jamesbeard.org. Retrieved 2025-08-21.
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