WHO IS DAVID DALE?

DAVID DALE writes about ideas, journeys, fads, foods, the power of places and the peculiarities of people. He graduated from Sydney University with honours in psychology, but decided he would do less harm to the cause of mental health if he went into journalism.

He has been a political reporter for The Australian, sub-editor for General Practitioner (London), features editor of The Sun-Herald, Editor of The Bulletin, New York correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald, and breakfast broadcaster for the ABC.

His 10 books include The Obsessive Traveller (or why I don't steal towels from great hotels
any more), An Australian in America and The Secrets of Pulcinella — Italian cooking
in Australia, as well as the five discussed on this site.

He is currently the anthropology writer for The Sydney Morning Herald, and is a regular contributor on travel and popular culture for The Age and the ABC. He tries to spend
six weeks of every year Somewhere Else.