Joe Yonan is the Food and Dining editor of The Washington Post, supervising all food coverage in the features department. He is the author of ""Mastering the Art of Plant-Based Cooking” (Ten Speed Press, 2024), which was named one of the year’s best cookbooks by The New York Times, NPR, Bon Appetit, Food and Wine and more. He also wrote the best-selling “Cool Beans” (Ten Speed Press, 2020), which received a nomination for best single-subject cookbook from the James Beard Awards He was the editor of ""America The Great Cookbook"" (Weldon Owen, 2017) and has written two other cookbooks for Ten Speed: “Eat Your Vegetables: Bold Recipes for the Single Cook” (2013) and “Serve Yourself: Nightly Adventures in Cooking for One"" (2011).
Joe was a food writer and Travel section editor at the Boston Globe before moving to Washington in 2006 to edit The Post’s Food section. He writes The Post’s Weeknight Vegetarian column and for five years wrote the Cooking for One column, both of which have won honors from the Association of Food Journalists. He also has written about his efforts to grow food on his 150-square-foot urban front yard. His work from the Globe and The Post has appeared in multiple editions of the “Best Food Writing” anthology.
Joe grew up in West Texas and spent 2012 in North Berwick, Maine, on leave from The Post to learn about growing and homesteading from his sister and brother-in-law and to work on “Eat Your Vegetables.” He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts.Joe Yonan is the Food and Dining editor of The Washington Post, supervising all food coverage in the features department. He is the author of ""Mastering the Art of Plant-Based Cooking” (Ten Speed Press, 2024), which was named one of the year’s best cookbooks by The New York Times, NPR, Bon Appetit, Food and Wine and more. He also wrote the best-selling “Cool Beans” (Ten Speed Press, 2020), which received a nomination for best single-subject cookbook from the James Beard Awards He was the editor of ""America The Great Cookbook"" (Weldon Owen, 2017) and has written two other cookbooks for Ten Speed: “Eat Your Vegetables: Bold Recipes for the Single Cook” (2013) and “Serve Yourself: Nightly Adventures in Cooking for One"" (2011).
Joe was a food writer and Travel section editor at the Boston Globe before moving to Washington in 2006 to edit The Post’s Food section. He writes The Post’s Weeknight Vegetarian column and for five years wrote the Cooking for One column, both of which have won honors from the Association of Food Journalists. He also has written about his efforts to grow food on his 150-square-foot urban front yard. His work from the Globe and The Post has appeared in multiple editions of the “Best Food Writing” anthology.
Joe grew up in West Texas and spent 2012 in North Berwick, Maine, on leave from The Post to learn about growing and homesteading from his sister and brother-in-law and to work on “Eat Your Vegetables.” He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts.
