Benjamin Kemper

Senior Recipes Editor

Benjamin Kemper is a native New Englander based in Madrid, Spain, where he test-runs recipes and writes about the places that make him hungriest. He is a longtime contributor at SAVEUR and became Senior Recipes Editor in 2022. Benjamin has lived in Boston, London, and New York and travels often to the Caucasus region.

Highlights

Over a decade of experience working in food-related fields.
Fluent Spanish speaker and insatiable hispanophile.
Articles in more than two dozen publications and authorship of several popular print travel guides.

Experience

Prior to joining SAVEUR, Benjamin was a freelance writer and editor and, before that, worked in marketing and in restaurants. His cooking career began as a preteen selling homemade pies to family friends; after studying Spanish literature at Boston University, he worked his way up in the hospitality industry, working as a captain and sommelier at restaurants including Gotham Bar and Grill in New York and Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen in London. After a brief stint working at a F&B-focused PR agency in New York, he moved to Spain in 2014 and began writing food and travel stories for American and British publications including The Wall Street Journal, AFAR, and Condé Nast Traveler. He also coauthored Michelin’s Green Guide to Spain, Lonely Planet’s Wine Trails Europe, and four editions of Fodor’s Essential Spain. On his nights off, he works at a local natural wine bar.