Gail Simmons

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...