Gilles Pudlowski

Gilles Pudlowski (born 15 November 1950 in Metz, Moselle) is a French journalist, writer, literary and gastronomic critic of Polish descent.

Gilles Pudlowski has also published "Pudlos" in pocket format devoted to Parisian bistros, Brittany, Alsace, Lorraine, Corsica and Luxembourg.

He is also responsible for the preface of the Larousse gastronomique (2007), literary anthologies (L'Année Poétique, Le Goût de Strasbourg),art books (Les Grandes gueules, Elles sont chefs, Les Trésors gourmands de la France, France Bistrots, Les Plus belles tables de France), As well as a handbook of good manners: Comment être critique gastronomique et garder la ligne, which he will update a few years later with À quoi sert vraiment un critique gastronomique, which became the reference work on this domain.

Pudlowski won the prize La Mazille for lifetime achievement at the gourmet festival Périgueux in 1992 and the price Amunátegui – Curnonsky, awarded by the Association professionnelle des chroniqueurs et informateurs de la gastronomie et du vin [fr] (Professional Association of chroniclers and informants Gastronomy and wine]), in December 2008.

Pudlowski was awarded the second Prix des Écrivains gastronomes on 7 March 2015 for Le Tour de France Gourmand at Éditions du Chêne [fr].

His blog Les Pieds dans le plat, obtained La Gastronomie Numérique award at "Gastronomades 2015".