Flavors of Japan

Gastronomic Discovery: An Evening of Japanese Food Culture- Jonathan Reynolds

For six years, Jonathan Reynolds wrote a bi-weekly food column for The New York Times Sunday Magazine. His book, Wrestling With Gravy, a food memoir, was recently published by Random House.

He has had nine plays produced in New York, most notably Dinner With Demons, his recent one-man show, in which he cooked a five course meal onstage at every performance, eight times a week; Stonewall Jackson’s House, which caused considerable commotion in 1998; Geniuses, which ran for a year off-Broadway in the 80s; and the first plays he wrote, a pair of one-acts, Yanks 3 Detroit O Top of the 7th and Rubbers.

Although five of his screenplays have also been produced, including Micki and Maude, The Distinguished Gentleman, and My Stepmother is an Alien, his most memorable experiences in filmmaking were with Apocalypse Now which he did not write, and Leonard Part 6, which he did. Both could have gone either way.

He is the recipient of Rockefeller and Guggenheim Fellowships and the Dramatists’ Guild Flora Roberts Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Theatre.

He is married to the producer and set designer Heidi Ettinger, and between them they have five sons.