Jay Porter

Jay Porter is a writer who took a fifteen-year detour operating restaurants. Those restaurants — The Linkery, El Take It Easy, and The Half Orange — never won stars from Michelin, but Pulitzer-Prize-winning critic Jonathan Gold did say Jay wrote “the best restaurant blog in America.” Jay’s latest project, a lifestyle and travel cookbook celebrating the cuisine of Baja California co-authored with Mexican chef David Castro Hussong, arrives Spring 2020 from Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House.

In 2013, Jay’s online writings about tipping culture went viral, attracting more than half a million readers in a few months. Other articles by Jay have appeared in a variety of publications including Slate and Quartz. Previously based in San Diego and Baja California, Jay now calls Oakland home.