Mark Schatzker
is a freelance magazine writer and frequent contributor to
Conde Nast
Traveler and a humor columnist for the
Globe and Mail newspaper. He
has been nominated for a James Beard journalism award and has received numerous
magazine awards. He is best known for his
Conde Nast Traveler story and wildly
popular blog that took him around the world in 80 days without ever taking a
plane. (Not as easy as you'd think.) Steak has been a longtime obsession
in Schatzker's writing and a couple of years ago, after suffering one too many
bland and overpriced strip loins, he decided that he'd finally had enough.
Where,
he wondered,
can a person find a decent steak? Thus began another world
odyssey, the culmination of which is
Steak:
One Man's Search for the World's Tastiest Piece of Beef.
