Joshua David Stein is a cookbook and children's book author, journalist and restaurant critic. His work includes Notes from a Young Black Chef and My America, with Kwame Onwuachi; Il Buco: Stories & Recipes, with Donna Lennard; The Nom Wah Cookbook, with Wilson Tang; Vino: An Essential Guide to Real Italian Wine, with Joe Campanale; Jang: The Secret to Korean Cooking, with Mingoo Kang and Nadia Cho; Why I Cook? with Tom Colicchio and many more. Among his children's books are What's Cooking?; Can I Eat That?; Brick: Who Found Herself in Architecture; Solitary Animals: Introverts of the Wild and The Catalogue of Hugs. He lives in Brooklyn with his sons, Augustus and Achilles.
