Paul Levy debates meat eating for Intelligence Squared

Paul Levy

Food writer, broadcaster and editor of The Penguin Book of Food and Drink

Paul Levy is the author and editor of several books on food and wine, including Out to Lunch (1986), The Penguin Book of Food and Drink (1996) and, with Ann Barr, The Official Foodie Handbook (1984). Born in the U.S.A. he has lived most of his life in Oxfordshire. He has a Ph.D. in English from Harvard, was educated at University of Chicago, University College London and Nuffield College, Oxford, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Levy is a Strachey Trustee and co-executor (with Michael Holroyd) of Lytton Strachey’s literary estate; also on the boards of the Jane Grigson Trust and the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, which he co-chairs with Claudia Roden.

He edited The Letters of Lytton Strachey (2005) and Lytton Strachey: The Really Interesting Question (1972); is the author of Moore: G.E.Moore and the Cambridge Apostles (1979); and, with Michael Holroyd, edited The Shorter Strachey (1980). He contributes weekly to the Wall Street Journal on opera, the theatre and the visual arts, writes obituaries for the Independent and blogs at the website.