Taber was a reporter and editor with Time magazine in the United States and Europe for 21 years, working in Brussels; Bonn; Houston; Washington, DC; and New York.
Stationed in Paris between 1973 and 1976, he reported extensively on French wine and cooking, including a Time cover story on chef Michel Guérard and his nouvelle cuisine.
[1] In 2005, Taber wrote a book on the event, with the goal of "setting the record straight".
[2] In 2012, Taber organized a blind tasting on behalf of the American Association of Wine Economists similar to the 1976 Judgment of Paris event between wines produced in France and several produced in New Jersey.
Taber began his own business newspaper in 1988 and interviewed and wrote about the presidents of both the United States and France.