Michael Booth (writer)

Michael Booth is an English food and travel writer and journalist who writes regularly for a variety of newspapers and magazines including the Independent on Sunday, Condé Nast Traveller, Monocle and Time Out. He also writes for the Danish newspaper Politiken.

Career

In June 2010, Michael Booth won the Guild of Food Writers Kate Whiteman Award for Work on Food and Travel. His book on Japanese cooking, Sushi and Beyond: What the Japanese Know About Cooking, was adapted into a Japanese anime television series which began airing in April 2015. This was followed in 2014 by his book The Almost Nearly Perfect People: The Truth About the Nordic Miracle, which he first began writing when he moved from England to Denmark about 15 years before its publication.

Personal life

He has a wife, Lissen, and two children, Asger and Emil. They live in Denmark.