James Villas

James  Villas

For 27 years, James Villas served as the food and wine editor of Town & Country magazine, and his work has appeared in Food & Wine, Saveur, Gourmet, Bon Appetit, The New York Times, and a variety of other magazines. He's written 15 cookbooks and food books, two of which were James Beard Award nominees and featured in Food & Wine's annual Best of the Best. He is the recipient of two James Beard Journalism Awards, the most recent for an essay in Saveur, and was voted Bon Appetit's Food Journalist of the Year in 2003. He's also the author of the Wiley cookbooks The Splendor of Southern Cooking and The Bacon Cookbook.