John McQuaid

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John McQuaid is the author of Tasty: The Art and Science of What We Eat. He has written about topics such as city-destroying super-termites, the slow collapse of fishing communities, hurricane levee engineering, mountaintop removal coal mining, and the global flower business for publications including Smithsonian magazine, The Washington Post, and the New Orleans Times-Picayune. He is the co-author of Path of Destruction: The Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife, son and daughter. The struggle to satisfy and understand the kids’ strange and contradictory food choices (the elder liked super-hot peppers and limes, the younger rice, pasta and cheese) was the inspiration for Tasty.