Dan Saladino

Dan Saladino has been a food journalist for almost 20 years. As a broadcaster he presents and producers editions of BBC Radio 4’s The Food Programme. His first book, Eating to Extinction: The World’s Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them, is an epic journey into the history, culture and future of food, and which involved 15 years of travel and story collecting.

Since its publication by Jonathan Cape in the UK and FSG in the United States, Eating to Extinction has been translated into more than ten languages and has won multiple awards, including: the prestigious Wainwright Prize for Conservation and Nature and the Fortnum & Mason Book of the Year. Dan is the recipient of a James Beard Awards (America’s most high-profile award for food journalism).

His work in radio, which has won multiple awards, includes efforts to document the loss of food cultures and biodiversity, a subject on which he’s considered to be one of the world’s most influential storytellers. His second book, From the Sea, a selection of Dan’s stories about endangered biodiversity in the world’s rivers and oceans, is being published by FSG in Spring 2025.