Gail Simmons is a Canadian trained culinary expert, food writer and television personality, and is the Special Projects Director with Food & Wine magazine. In addition to her role with Food & Wine, she is a regular judge on the television show Top Chef and hosts its spin-off, Top Chef: Just Desserts. 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. 

May 19th, 1976 in Toronto (Age 48)