Featured Speaker: Joe Yonan, Author and Food & Travel Editor at The Washington Post

Joe Yonan will lead a Writing session at this year's IFBC in Seattle, WA.

Joe Yonan is the Food and Travel editor of The Washington Post, where he’s worked since moving to Washington from The Boston Globe in 2006. He’s proud that his great team at the Post has twice been awarded the James Beard Foundation award for the nation's best newspaper food section.

He’s also a writer: he pens occasional features for both Food and Travel, including the occasional "Cooking for One" column, which has won honors from the Association of Food Journalists, and the Weeknight Vegetarian recipe column. His writing for the Post and The Boston Globe has appeared in three editions of the "Best Food Writing" anthology. He’s the author of "Serve Yourself: Nightly Adventures in Cooking for One," published by Ten Speed Press in March 2011, and the coauthor of "The Fearless Chef" with Boston chef Andy Husbands. In 2012 he took a yearlong leave from the Post to leave with his sister and brother-in-law in southern Maine, where he helped them with their homestead, cemented a move toward vegetarianism, and worked on his most recent book, "Eat Your Vegetables: Bold Recipes for the Single Cook.”