{"id":6511,"date":"2025-10-02T18:52:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T18:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/givingkitchen.org\/?post_type=board-member&#038;p=6511"},"modified":"2025-10-02T18:52:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T18:52:17","slug":"john-kessler","status":"publish","type":"board-member","link":"https:\/\/givingkitchen.org\/es\/board-members\/john-kessler\/","title":{"rendered":"John Kessler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"TextRun MacChromeBold SCXW205371076 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW205371076 BCX0\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"GK 3 - Body Copy\" data-ccp-parastyle-defn=\"{&quot;ObjectId&quot;:&quot;0a584fae-d272-5392-865a-3e7e24b5e645|1&quot;,&quot;ClassId&quot;:1073872969,&quot;Properties&quot;:[335559740,&quot;274&quot;,201341983,&quot;0&quot;,335559739,&quot;180&quot;,201342446,&quot;1&quot;,201342447,&quot;5&quot;,201342448,&quot;1&quot;,201342449,&quot;1&quot;,469777841,&quot;Lora&quot;,469777842,&quot;&quot;,469777843,&quot;Aptos&quot;,469777844,&quot;Lora&quot;,201341986,&quot;1&quot;,469769226,&quot;Lora&quot;,268442635,&quot;22&quot;,469775450,&quot;GK 3 - Body Copy&quot;,201340122,&quot;2&quot;,134234082,&quot;true&quot;,134233614,&quot;true&quot;,469778129,&quot;GK3-BodyCopy&quot;,335572020,&quot;1&quot;,134224900,&quot;true&quot;,335551500,&quot;8211257&quot;,469778324,&quot;Normal&quot;]}\">John Kessler is the restaurant critic for Chicago Magazine. He previously spent 18 years as a food writer at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He graduated from\u202fWilliams College, lived in Japan for two years and then, to the dismay of his psychoanalyst father, attended <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW205371076 BCX0\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"GK 3 - Body Copy\">L\u2019Academie<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW205371076 BCX0\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"GK 3 - Body Copy\"> de Cuisine culinary school near Washington, D.C. He worked for several years as a restaurant cook and chef in Washington and Denver, where he got his start as a critic at the alternative newsweekly, Westword. His writing has received many awards, including a National Headliner Award and a James Beard award. His essays, columns and food features have been anthologized 11 times in \u201cBest Food Writing.\u201d His freelance work has appeared in Food &amp; Wine, Bon <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW205371076 BCX0\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"GK 3 - Body Copy\">App\u00e9tit<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW205371076 BCX0\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"GK 3 - Body Copy\"> and the Oxford American among many other publications. He served as <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW205371076 BCX0\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"GK 3 - Body Copy\">chairman<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW205371076 BCX0\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"GK 3 - Body Copy\"> of the James Beard Foundation\u2019s journalism awards committee.\u202f<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Kessler is the restaurant critic for Chicago Magazine. 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