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Jay Cheshes

New York, United States
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Covers:  Food, travel, art, culture, design
Doesn't Cover: Science
JOURNALIST | food. travel. art. culture. design. crime. @WSJMag @WSJLife @nytimes @TandCMag @TravelLeisure

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Jay Cheshes’s Biography

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Jay Cheshes is a feature writer. covering food, travel, art, culture (and the occasional crime story). A regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal, for five years he reviewed restaurants weekly for Time Out New York. Trained as a chef—at the Culinary Institute of America—he was also the New York dining critic for Gourmet magazine (for which he received a James Beard nomination). His work has appeared in Town & Country, Fortune, W, Saveur, Travel & Leisure and the New York Times among other…

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A Chef With Three Michelin Stars Expands His Empire

A Chef With Three Michelin Stars Expands His Empire

With the first and only three-star restaurant in Abruzzo, chef Niko Romito has elevated the region's cuisine.…

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A Museum of Contemporary African Art to Open in Cape Town

A Museum of Contemporary African Art to Open in Cape Town

In a former grain silo, reimagined by Thomas Heatherwick, Jochen Zeitz is opening the world's first major mus…

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Biting into Berlin's Most Popular Dish (Not Schnitzel)

Biting into Berlin's Most Popular Dish (Not Schnitzel)

A five-stop tasting tour of Berlin's star sandwiches, the savory döner kebab, from a classic hole-in-the-wall…

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The Berkshires Town That's Becoming a Cultural Hub

The Berkshires Town That's Becoming a Cultural Hub

This summer, North Adams welcomes a series of cutting-edge art and hospitality projects-and that's only the b…

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Kimbal Musk Says Food is the New Internet

Kimbal Musk Says Food is the New Internet

Former tech entrepreneur Kimbal Musk's ambitions for innovation in sustainable farming are as grand as his br…

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Asking After The Future At The World Frontiers Forum

Asking After The Future At The World Frontiers Forum

You know you're at a big ideas conference when Segway inventor Dean Kamen offers a ride to the X-Prize Summit…

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How to host an upstate garden party, with Dorian Grinspan

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By Jay Cheshes
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Dorian Grinspan is running across the lawn at Maison Monna, the three-bedroom B&B and creative retreat named after his paternal grandmother.
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September 19, 2026 - Air Mail

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By Philip Shenon, Jay Cheshes, Ashley Baker
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In his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, a book that established the canon for Italian artists, the 16th-century painter Giorgio Vasari, inventor of the term “Renaissance,” accorded Antonio da Correggio, “the first modern painter of Lombardy,” a sort of second-class status.
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The Recipe Site That Ate Itself

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By Jay Cheshes
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Late last year, a week before Christmas, Erika Ayers Badan, the C.E.O. of recipe site Food52 and its home-furnishing and cookware brands, Schoolhouse and Dansk, called a virtual all-hands meeting for the entire company. Many on her staff assumed she’d be announcing some kind of lifeline, or perhaps new owners. “But no,” says Katie Elliott, the former creative director for all three brands.
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By email.

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What story are you most proud of writing or working on?

My feature on Henry Ford's great grandson who is building a $90 million temple in the jungles of West Bengal.