Bio
James Oseland is an American food writer and magazine editor best known to television viewers as a judge on the reality competition television series Top Chef Masters, since 2009.
Oseland has been the editor-in-chief of Saveur magazine since 2006. Prior to that, he was the magazine's executive editor. He has also been an editor at Vogue, Organic Style, Sassy, and Mademoiselle.
In 2006 his book, Cradle of Flavor: Home Cooking from the Spice Islands of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, was published and went on to win awards from the James Beard Foundation and the International Association of Culinary Professionals and was named one of the best books of that year by Time Asia, the New York Times, Good Morning America, the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Jose Mercury News, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, and others.
Oseland has appeared on the Today Show and as a judge on Iron Chef America, and is a regular guest on radio programs, including The Splendid Table.
He has lectured on a variety of culinary topics at the Asia Society, the Abergavenny Food Festival in Wales, Slow Food Nation, and the Culinary Institute of America's Worlds of Flavor conference.
Before becoming a journalist, Oseland wrote, ghostwrote, and acted in numerous films, including Guncrazy (starring Drew Barrymore).
Oseland holds a BFA and MFA in photography and film studies from the San Francisco Art Institute. A California native, he has lived in India and Indonesia and now calls Williamsburg, Brooklyn, home.