Dan Saladino
Dan Saladino has been a food journalist for almost 20 years. As a broadcaster he presents and producers editions of BBC Radio 4’s The Food Programme. His first book, Eating to Extinction: The World’s Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them, is an epic journey into the history, culture and future of food, and which involved 15 years of travel and story collecting.
Since its publication by Jonathan Cape in the UK and FSG in the United States, Eating to Extinction has been translated into more than ten languages and has won multiple awards, including: the prestigious Wainwright Prize for Conservation and Nature, the Jane Grigson Trust prize for a debut food book, an Andre Simon Award, Fortnum & Mason Book of the Year and the Guild of Food Writers Food Book Award.
Dan Saladino is also the recipient of a James Beard Awards (America’s most high-profile award for food journalism).
His work in radio, which has also won various awards, includes his efforts to document the loss of food cultures and biodiversity around the world, a subject on which he’s considered to be one of the world’s most influential storytellers.
He has given keynote addresses on issues surrounding global food security and biodiversity in the US, across Europe, Asia and at the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation in Rome.
His second book, From the Sea, a selection of Dan’s stories about endangered biodiversity in the world’s rivers and oceans, is being published by FSG in Spring 2025.
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Dan Saladino has been a food journalist for almost 20 years. As a broadcaster he presents and producers editions of BBC Radio 4’s The Food Programme. His first book, Eating to Extinction: The World’s Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them, is an epic journey into the history, culture and future of food, and which involved 15 years of travel and story collecting.
Since its publication by Jonathan Cape in the UK and FSG in the United States, Eating to Extinction has been translated into more than ten languages and has won multiple awards, including: the prestigious Wainwright Prize for Conservation and Nature, the Jane Grigson Trust prize for a debut food book, an Andre Simon Award, Fortnum & Mason Book of the Year and the Guild of Food Writers Food Book Award.
Dan Saladino is also the recipient of a James Beard Awards (America’s most high-profile award for food journalism).
His work in radio, which has also won various awards, includes his efforts to document the loss of food cultures and biodiversity around the world, a subject on which he’s considered to be one of the world’s most influential storytellers.
He has given keynote addresses on issues surrounding global food security and biodiversity in the US, across Europe, Asia and at the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation in Rome.
His second book, From the Sea, a selection of Dan’s stories about endangered biodiversity in the world’s rivers and oceans, is being published by FSG in Spring 2025.
