Alexander Lobrano

Raised in Westport, CT, Lobrano is the grandson of the New Yorker's famed fiction editor, Gus Lobrano.  After college at Amherst and a stint at Random House as Joe Fox's editorial assistant, Lobrano began his career in food-writing, which included editorial positions at People, W, Departures, the London Observer, and Travel & Leisure. From 1999 until it closed in 2009, Lobrano held one of the most coveted jobs in Paris as Gourmet's European correspondent. Writing on food, but also travel and cultural subjects, he contributes regularly to the New York Times, the London Times, the Int'l Herald Tribune, and is a contributing editor at Conde Nast Traveler. As for books, he was the original editor of Zagat's Paris Survey, and the founding editor of the Time Out Guide to Eating & Drinking in Paris. Lobrano has also won several prestigious James Beard awards for food writing.