Jay Cheshes
Jay Cheshes’s Biography
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 publications. In addition to covering lifestyle subjects, he also writes profiles and investigative pieces. He holds a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University, and recently completed his first book, a ghostwriting project. The son of a US diplomat, he was raised in six countries on three continents. He is based in New York but travels frequently.