Morgan Murphy

Bestselling author and television personality Morgan Murphy knows food. His latest book, On the Road Again (Time Inc. 2015), immediately hit #1 on Publisher's Weekly. His other titles, Bourbon & Bacon (Time Inc. 2014), Off the Eaten Path: Second Helpings (Time Inc., 2013), Off the Eaten Path (Time Inc., 2011), and I Love You--Now Hush (Blair, 2010), have made him one of the culinary world’s best-known food critics. Millions have read Murphy’s trademark wit in Vanity Fair, Forbes, Esquire, Garden Design, Harper’s Bazaar, The New York Post, and Southern Living.

Murphy has appeared on The TODAY Show, Fox & Friends, CNN, Sirius/XM, and NPR. He holds an MBA from the University of Oxford and an undergraduate degree from Birmingham-Southern College. Murphy is passionate about public service and serves as a commander in the U.S. Navy Reserve, where he is currently assigned to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Commander Murphy is a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, where he was awarded the Meritorious Defense Service Medal and the Afghan campaign medal, among others.

Morgan lives in Birmingham, Ala., where he serves on the boards of the Downtown Kiwanis Club, the St. Andrew's Society of the Middle South, and Independent Presbyterian Church.