Peter Kaminsky

Peter Kaminsky is one of America’s leading angling journalists and authors. His Outdoors column has appeared in the New York Times for thirty-five years. Kaminsky has been a contributing editor at Field & Stream, Sports Afield, Outdoor Life, and was managing editor of National Lampoon. His angling writing has also appeared in Fly Fisherman, Condé Nast Traveler, Smithsonian Magazine, GQ, The Field, and Anglers Journal. Among his fishing books are The Moon Pulled Up an Acre of Bass, American Waters: Flyfishing Journeys of a Native Son, The Flyfisherman’s Guide to the Meaning of Life, Fishing for Dummies, and Flyfishing for Dummies. An avid home cook, he wrote Pig Perfect: Encounters with Remarkable Swine, and Culinary Intelligence. He has co-authored 18 cookbooks including Seven Fires with Francis Mallmann, The Elements of Taste with Gray Kunz, and Ultimate Tailgating with John Madden. He was The Underground Gourmet for New York Magazine for four years and his food writing has often appeared in Food & Wine and The New York Times. As writer and Executive Producer, Kaminsky is a creator of The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor and The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.