Mike Sula
Bio:
I'm the
Reader's lead restaurant critic and have been a contributor here since 1995. I've also written about
politics, crime, film,
health care, and
paleontology, and have profiled a rainbow of urban eccentrics. My work has been published in in
Harper's, the
Chicago Tribune, the
Chicago Sun-Times, NPR's
The Salt, Plate, and Eater, and my story about
outlaw charcuterie appeared in
Best Food Writing 2010. My story
"Chicken of the Trees," about eating city squirrels, won the James Beard Foundation's 2013 M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award.