Lettie Teague

Lettie Teague is the executive wine editor of Food & Wine, a must-read for anyone with a passionate interest in cooking, wine, travel, restaurants and entertaining. An eleven-year veteran with the magazine, Teague oversees Food & Wine's wine coverage, including two annual wine issues, the magazine's annual wine awards programs -- The American Wine Awards and The Best New Restaurant Wine Lists -- and her monthly column, "Wine Matters," for which she won the 2003 James Beard MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing award and the 2005 James Beard Magazine Columns award.

Teague's new book, Educating Peter, based on her award-winning columns, was published by Scribner's in March 2007 and the paperback edition was published September 2008. In this book, Teague teaches her good friend and wine neophyte Peter Travers, film critic of Rolling Stone, a few fundamentals -- how to order off a restaurant wine list without fear, approach a wine merchant with confidence, and perhaps score a few points off a wine snob. Teague is also co-author, originator and illustrator of the introductory text, FEAR OF WINE, published by Bantam Books in 1995 and still in print.

Teague regularly travels to wine regions throughout the world and appears on national press outlets including CNN, CNN Headline News and CNBC. She tastes about 250 wines every month.