Bret Thorn
Food Editor

Award-winning columnist Bret Thorn is responsible for spotting and reporting on culinary trends across the country.

He joined Nation’s Restaurant News in 1999 after spending about five years in Thailand, where he covered business, banking and finance as well as restaurant reviews and food columns for Manager magazine and Asia Times newspaper.

A magna cum laude graduate of Tufts University in Medford, Mass., with a bachelor’s degree in history, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Mr. Thorn also studied traditional French cooking at Le Cordon Bleu Ecole de Cuisine in Paris.

His column in Nation’s Restaurant News won the 2006 Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award for best staff-written editorial or opinion column.

He lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.

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  • SPIRIT Awards panel: Where did everybody go? (MUFSO)

     NRN columnist and human resources expert Jim Sullivan looked kind of bemused at the beginning of his panel this afternoon.
    It featured this year's winners of the SPIRIT awards, which are given by NRN for excellence in human resources recruitment, training and retention. 
    Turnout was sparse. 
    "Raise your hand if you have a space next to you," he shouted out. I was sitting in front, but I assume everyone raised their hands.
    "Move on up and fill in the spaces," he yelled, as if there were a throng he needed to shout over.

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  • Beard Awards 2010 - not a jedi to be seen
    The James Beard Foundation Chef and Restaurant Awards ceremony and the awards press room were practically unrelated this year.
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