Jay Rayner

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Jay Rayner (born September 14, 1966 ) is a British journalist , writer , radio presenter , food critic and jazz pianist .

Career

Rayner is the younger son of the Jewish family of actor Desmond Rayner and journalist Claire Rayner (1931-2010).

After graduating from the University of Leeds in 1988, where he was editor of the student newspaper, he started the newspaper The Observer . He has been a restaurant critic for The Observer since 2018 . He has written for a variety of British newspapers and magazines, including Esquire , Cosmopolitan , New Statesman and Granta . In 1992 he was named Young Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards .

His first novel, The Marble Kiss , published in 1994, was nominated for the Author's Club First Novel Award , and his second Day of Atonement (1998) was nominated for the Jewish Quarterly Prize for Fiction . His first non-fiction book, Stardust Falling , was published in 2002. This is followed by his third novel The Apologist , which was published in the USA in 2004 under the title Eating Crow . In 1997 he won a Sony Radio Award for his radio show on the newspaper business Papertalk on the BBC Five Live Radios . He was a panelist in Eating with the Enemy and the UK version of MasterChef. He is the food reporter for BBC magazine The One Show and was a member of the jury for the American Top Chef Masters . Rayner directs a BBC Radio 4 show called The Kitchen Cabinet .

He was named Beard of the Year 2011 by the Beard Liberation Front as a beard bearer .

Rayner plays the piano with his Jay Rayner Jazz Quartet .

controversy

In 2017 Rayner wrote a very harsh condemnation of the Paris three-star restaurant "Le Cinq" for the London newspaper The Guardian . In it he compared a sofa with a silicone breast implant for a Barbie doll, and eating one of the kitchen creations with eating a condom. The criticism caused a stir internationally and, because of the coarse language images, led to discussions and comments in the British, French and German media.

Publications

Novels

Non-fiction

  • Star Dust Falling (2002), ISBN 0-552-99908-3 .
  • The Man Who Ate the World (2008), ISBN 0-8050-8669-2 .
  • A Greedy Man in a Hungry World (2014).
  • My Dining Hell: Twenty Ways to Have a Lousy Night Out (2015).
  • The Ten (Food) Commandments (2016).
  • Wasted Calories and Ruined Nights (2018), a collection of negative reviews by Rayner.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ yorkshirepost.co.uk: The Big Interview: Jay Rayner
  2. ↑ insidepulse.com: Top Chef Masters Season 1 Episode 3 Review
  3. ↑ bbc.co.uk: The Kitchen Cabinet
  4. ↑ 2011: a good year for facial hair ( Memento from August 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ jayrayner.co.uk: Jay Rayner Jazz Quartet
  6. ↑ theguardian.com: Le Cinq, Paris: restaurant review
  7. ^ British food critic gets French steaming. Retrieved December 8, 2018 .
  8. ^ "Le Cinq" crime scene. April 11, 2017, accessed December 8, 2018 (German).
  9. ^ Interview with Jay Rayner . digyorkshire.com. May 27, 2009. Retrieved June 17, 2009.
  10. ↑ jayrayner.co.uk: ANNOUNCING: a new collection of my scorching reviews of terrible restaurants
personal data
SURNAME Rayner, Jay
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist, writer, broadcaster, food critic and jazz pianist
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1966