Michael Booth is a journalist and food writer who contributes regularly to numerous British and foreign magazines, including Condé Nast Traveller and Monocle, and has written for all of the UK's broadsheet newspapers. He is the author of four works of non-fiction, including Eat, Pray, Eat, Just as Well I'm Leaving, nominated for the Irish Times first writers award, Sacré Cordon Bleu, which was a BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week', and Sushi and Beyond, which won the Guild of Food Writers Kate Whiteman Award for the best book on food and travel in 2010.