Senior Food & Beverage Editor<\/p>\n
Bret Thorn is senior food & beverage editor of Nation\u2019s Restaurant News and Restaurant Hospitality.<\/p>\n
Hi is responsible for spotting and reporting on F&B trends across the country for both publications.<\/p>\n
He is the co-host of a podcast, Menu Talk with Pat and Bret, which features interviews with chefs, food & beverage authorities, and other experts in foodservice operations.<\/p>\n
From 2005 to 2008 he also wrote the Kitchen Dish column for The New York Sun, covering restaurant openings and chefs\u2019 career moves in New York City.<\/p>\n
He joined Nation\u2019s Restaurant News in 1999 after spending about five years in Thailand, where he wrote articles about business, banking and finance as well as restaurant reviews and food columns for Manager magazine and Asia Times newspaper. He joined Restaurant Hospitality\u2019s staff in 2016 while retaining his position at NRN.<\/p>\n
A magna cum laude graduate of Tufts University in Medford, Mass., with a bachelor\u2019s degree in history, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Thorn also studied traditional French cooking at Le Cordon Bleu Ecole de Cuisine in Paris. He spent his junior year of college in China, studying Chinese language, history and culture for a semester each at Nanjing University and Beijing University. While in Beijing, he also worked for ABC News during the protests and ultimate crackdown in and around Tiananmen Square in 1989.<\/p>\n
Thorn\u2019s monthly column in Nation\u2019s Restaurant News won the 2006 Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award for best staff-written editorial or opinion column.<\/p>\n
He served as president of the International Foodservice Editorial Council, or IFEC, in 2005.<\/p>\n
Thorn wrote the entry on comfort food in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America, 2nd edition, published in 2012. He also wrote a history of plated desserts for the Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets, published in 2015.<\/p>\n
He was inducted into the Disciples d\u2019Escoffier in 2014.<\/p>\n
A Colorado native originally from Denver, Thorn lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.<\/p>\n
Bret Thorn\u2019s areas of expertise include food and beverage trends in restaurants, French cuisine, the cuisines of Asia in general and Thailand in particular, restaurant operations and service trends.<\/p>\n
Bret Thorn\u2019s Experience:<\/p>\n
Nation\u2019s Restaurant News, food & beverage editor, 1999-Present
New York Sun, columnist, 2005-2008
Asia Times, sub editor, 1995-1997
Manager magazine, senior editor and restaurant critic, 1992-1997
ABC News, runner, May-July, 1989<\/p>\n
Education:
Tufts University, BA in history, 1990
Peking University, studied Chinese language, spring, 1989
Nanjing University, studied Chinese language and culture, fall, 1988
Le Cordon Bleu Ecole de Cuisine, C\u00e9rtificat El\u00e9mentaire, 1986<\/p>\n
Email: [email\u00a0protected]<\/a><\/p>\n Social Media:
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