Howie Kahn Howie Kahn is a food, culture, and lifestyle journalist based in New York. He contributes to GQ, Wired, Elle, and O, The Oprah Magazine, and is a contributing editor for WSJ., The Wall Street Journal's magazine. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Men's Journal, Departures, Travel + Leisure, The Wall Street Journal, Food & Wine, Triple Canopy, Swallow, and other publications. Howie is the founder of FreeTime Podcasts and the founding host of Prince Street, a food and culture podcast heard in more than two hundred countries.• Co-author of the New York Times best-selling book "Sneakers"• Work anthologized in the New York Times' “Modern Love: True and Extraordinary Tales of Desire, Deceit, and Devotion” and McSweeney's “Grantland Quarterly”• Won a James Beard Award• Won a Hopwood Award• Received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan• Received a master’s degree from Sarah Lawrence College About Travel + Leisure Travel + Leisure, a Dotdash Meredith Brand, is a top travel media brand with a mission to inform and inspire passionate travelers. Our expert team includes a network of hundreds of writers and photographers across the globe, all providing a local eye on the best places to stay, eat, and explore. We reach an audience that takes 76 million round trips annually, offering valuable travel tips, ideas and inspiration, and products you need to get you to your destination — whether it’s a small town or big city, beach or lake, national park or theme park, road trip, cruise, or long-haul flight, and everything in between. Learn more about us and our editorial process