Jeffrey Yoskowitz

Jeffrey Yoskowitz is a food entrepreneur, a writer, and a revivalist of Jewish heritage cuisine. He co-authored the critically acclaimed cookbook THE GEFILTE MANIFESTO: NEW RECIPES FOR OLD WORLD JEWISH FOODS (Flatiron Books 2016)–named a National Jewish Book Award finalist for contemporary Jewish practice. A co-founder of The Gefilteria, which re-imagines Eastern European Jewish cooking, Jeffrey travels the globe speaking, cooking, and teaching. His writings on food and culture have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Tablet, among others. He teaches culinary anthropology at The City College of New York and serves as chef and scholar-in-residence for a Jewish culinary heritage tour of Poland he developed. He has cooked as a guest chef at the esteemed James Beard House kitchen and was named to the Forbes Magazine 30 under 30 list for Food and Wine, as well as The Forward 50. Most recently, Jeffrey served as a judge for the National Jewish Book Awards inaugural Stuart Weitzman Family Award for Food Writing and Cookbooks.