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Award-winning food journalist named editor-in-chief of Restaurants & Institutions.


CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 19, 1996--Daniel P. Puzo, one of the nation's leading food journalists, has been named editor-in-chief of Restaurants & Institutions magazine, the flagship foodservice trade journal of Cahners Publishing Co. The announcement was made by Dana E. Quillen, R&I's publisher.

Puzo, frequently honored for distinguished reporting and writing, is an 18-year veteran of the Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times

Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name).
, where he covered agriculture, food safety, the supermarket industry and food-related government regulatory agencies.

He helped pioneer the newspaper's substantive reporting about food news, and his articles, often ground-breaking coverage of a highly complex industry, were distributed to more than 300 news outlets by the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850.  Times-Washington Post News Service.

Puzo, 42, has won virtually every major award for food news reporting; some twice.

-- Since 1987, he has won seven awards for reporting and writing excellence from the Association of Food Journalists.

-- He has won the James Beard
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 Foundation's Food Journalism Award for Best Food News Reporting for Newspapers in 1995 and 1996. Since 1994, he has received six Beard Journalism Award nominations -- more than any other newspaper reporter in the U.S.

-- He won the prestigious University of Missouri Lifestyles Journalism Award for Food & Nutrition reporting in 1996. Judges called his winning entry, "On the Hamburger Trail" an "unforgettable journey," and "exemplary reporting."

-- He was named the International Association of Culinary Professionals' Bert Greene Award winner for distinguished newspaper food journalism in 1996. Puzo also won the Bert Greene award in 1992.

-- Puzo was the inaugural recipient of the Brock Center Award for Outstanding Agricultural Communication administered by California Polytechnic State University This article is about the university in San Luis Obispo, California. For Cal Poly Pomona, see California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

California Polytechnic State University, commonly called Cal Poly
, San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo (săn l`ĭs ōbĭs`pō), city (1990 pop. 41,958), seat of San Luis Obispo co., S Calif., near San Luis Obispo Bay; inc. 1856. , in 1990. Cal Poly Cal Poly may refer to:
  • California Polytechnic State University, located in San Luis Obispo, California (Cal Poly)
  • California State Polytechnic University, Pomona located in Pomona, California (Cal Poly Pomona)
 also honored Puzo with Brock awards in 1993 and 1994.

Quillen said, "Dan Puzo is a veteran, prize-winning reporter whose brilliant work in food journalism is a perfect fit with R&I's long history of editorial excellence. Under his leadership, I'm confident that R&I's editorial product will reach even greater heights."

Puzo is past president of the Association of Food Journalists, a professional group of 270 representing every major newspaper in North America. An accomplished public speaker and lecturer, Puzo also has frequently appeared on network and local broadcast media. He has written for Food & Wine magazine and for The Journal of Gastronomy gastronomy

Art of selecting, preparing, serving, and enjoying fine food. Two early centres of gastronomy were China (from the 5th century BC) and Rome, the latter noted for the excess and ostentation of its banquets.
. He co-authored the "Los Angeles Times California Cookbook" (Abrams, 1981).

In 1991, The Wall Street Journal listed Puzo as one of the nation's most important food writers and reporters. Ruth Reichl, former Los Angeles Times food editor and now the restaurant reviewer for the New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 Times, described Puzo as "the most careful reporter I have ever worked with," in a 1992 article in Editor & Publisher magazine.

Puzo received his B.A. in English Literature from Rutgers University in 1975, and an M.A. in Journalism -- with honors -- from the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission . He is a native of Trenton, New Jersey.

Restaurants & Institutions, Des Plaines, Ill., is the leading magazine of the U.S. foodservice industry, with a circulation of 174,000 industry leaders, executives, managers and professionals. R&I is published 24 times a year by Cahners Publishing Co., Newton, Mass., the nation's leading publisher of specialized business magazines, including Variety and Publishers' Weekly.

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