Dr Paul Levy

Career: journalist and lapsed academic; food and wine ed The Observer 1980-92, wine and food columnist (as Amy DeVine) You magazine The Mail on Sunday 1992-, sr contrib Europe, Arts and Leisure page Wall Street Journal 1993-; regular contrib: ArtsJournal.com, The Independent, TLS, The Observer, Travel & Leisure (USA), Slate (USA), Guardian Word of Mouth; frequent broadcaster on radio and TV; writer and presenter The Feast of Christmas (Channel 4) 1992 and 1993; national press specialist Writers' Commendations 1985 and 1987; tstee: Strachey Tst, Jane Grigson Tst; co-chair Oxford Symposium on Food and Cooking; memb: Circle of Wine Writers, Critics Circle (music, art and theatre sections); FRSL 1980

Books and Publications: Lytton Strachey: The Really Interesting Question (ed, 1972), G E Moore and the Cambridge Apostles (1977, 3 edn 1989), The Shorter Strachey (ed with Michael Holroyd, 1980, 2 edn 1989), The Official Foodie Handbook (with Ann Barr, 1984), Out to Lunch (1986, new edn 2003), Finger-lickin' Good (1990), The Feast of Christmas (1992), The Penguin Book of Food and Drink (ed, 1996), Eminent Victorians, The Definitive Edition (ed, 2002), The Letters of Lytton Strachey (ed, 2005)