Michael Serrur

• Michael had the privilege of interviewing New York City rap legend Styles P (of The LOX) at his Brooklyn-based juice bar, Juices for Life, to discuss health, music, and food access across different communities.
• He co-authored a paper published in Nutritional and Health Aspects of Food in Western Europe that aimed to predict future trends in food and beverage manufacturing, ingredient sourcing, marketing, and formulation.
• His favorite style of cuisine is Korean, and he is in constant pursuit of New York City's best banchan.

Experience

Michael has always been fascinated by food's ability to comfort, nourish, and inspire. While pursuing his master's degree in food systems at NYU, he served as a brand representative for a newly launched gourmet sorbet company called Sorbabes. After graduation, he wrote full-time for The Daily Meal as their healthy eating editor. Here, his articles, which covered a range of topics from longevity to food safety to the potential health benefits of a shot of tequila, were syndicated across major news outlets, including MSN, Yahoo, Food Beast, HuffPost, and Fox News. Later, he was recruited to become the in-house food writer at GNT, an international ingredient supplier specializing in natural food coloring. Most recently, he was the lead copywriter for Meatless Monday, a non-profit public wellness initiative focused on empowering audiences to eat more plant-based foods. Today, Michael focuses his attention on reading, writing (and publishing) short fiction, and finding the best New York City eats he can actually afford.

Education

Michael has a bachelor's degree in history from SUNY New Paltz and a master's degree in food studies from New York University.