Gail Simmons
| Gail Simmons | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 19, 1976 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Alma mater | McGill University |
| Occupation | Culinary expert, food writer, television personality |
| Spouse(s) | Jeremy Abrams (2008-present) |
Gail Simmons (born May 19, 1976) is a Canadian food writer and cookbook author. Since the show’s inception in 2006, she has served as a permanent judge on BRAVO’s Emmy-winning series Top Chef. Simmons was previously the head critic on Top Chef Duels and host of Top Chef: Just Desserts, Bravo’s pastry-focused spin-off of the Top Chef franchise. She was also co-host of “The Feed,” which aired in 2014 on FYI, A+E’s new lifestyle network. In addition to her work on Top Chef, Gail makes frequent television appearances on NBC’s Today and ABC’s Good Morning America, among others. She has been featured in such publications as New York magazine, Travel + Leisure, GQ, People, Los Angeles Times, and more.
She offers advice for anyone who's new to the food world and wants to break into the culinary limelight: you should "love what you’re doing and you’ll manage to do it - no matter how hard it is".
The good taste necessary to be a food critic is not just something she was born with, but, as she explains, it is a natural balance that can easily be found through understanding flavor and a passion to learn.
Simmons was born May 19, 1976 in Toronto, and graduated from McGill University in Montreal, where she majored in anthropology and Spanish. She is the youngest of three siblings in a Jewish family, which includes her mother Renee, formerly a food columnist for Globe and Mail who conducted cooking classes in their home, and her father, Ivor.
She began her food-journalism career writing restaurant reviews for the McGill Tribune before becoming an intern at monthly magazine Toronto Life and later wrote for the daily National Post newspaper.
Simmons attended the The Peter Kump New York Cooking School in New York City and apprenticed at Le Cirque and Vong.
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