Tanya Wenman Steel

Tanya Wenman Steel is Editor-in-Chief of the award-winning Epicurious.com, CondéNet's premier food website, named the Best Food Website of 2008 by the James Beard Foundation. Steel is also a coauthor of Real Food for Healthy Kids.

Prior to joining Epicurious.com, Steel was the New York editor of Bon Appétit magazine for ten years. In addition to running the New York branch office, she wrote and edited columns and features, including the monthly "Restaurant Reporter." Ms. Steel won the prestigious James Beard Foundation Journalism Award for Magazine Restaurant Review or Critique in 2003. She is a member of the American Society of Magazine Editors and a James Beard Restaurant Judge. She has been in the publishing industry for over 20 years.

Prior to Bon Appétit, she was an editor at Diversion, Food & Wine, and Mademoiselle magazines. Steel has also written extensively for many other publications, including The New York Times, New York Magazine, Travel & Leisure, Child, McCall's, Nick Jr., and Cosmopolitan.