David Dale

David Dale graduated from Sydney University with honours in psychology, but decided he would do less harm to the cause of mental health if he went into journalism. He's been a political reporter, feature writer, columnist, broadcaster, foreign correspondent, restaurant critic, subeditor, and editor for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, the ABC, General Practitioner and Fairfax online. He writes and talks about food, travel, popular culture and anthropology, and teaches journalism at UTS, Sydney. His 14 books include: The Art of Pasta (with Lucio Galletto, Penguin); Anatolia - Adventures in Turkish Cooking (with Somer Sivrioglu, Murdoch Books); Essential Places - A book about ideas and where they started (Picador); and The Little Book of Australia (Allen and Unwin).