Brendan Spiegel is a travel, food and culture writer based in Brooklyn, NY.

His work has appeared in The New York Times, Travel + Leisure, Budget Travel, New York magazine, Men’s Journal, the Village Voice, Wired, National Geographic Adventure, Backpacker, CHOW.com, mental_floss and The Huffington Post.

Brendan is also the editor and co-founder of Endless Simmer, an independent food website that draws 100,000+ monthly readers, and a contributing editor at BizBash magazine, an event planning trade publication. He got his start as a political reporter and editor at Congressional Quarterly.