Peter Kaminsky is an American writer, journalist, and television producer specializing in food and outdoors topics. He wrote the Underground Gourmet column for New York magazine for four years and contributed food writing to Food & Wine and The New York Times. His Outdoors column ran in The New York Times for 35 years, and he served as a contributing editor for Field & Stream, Sports Afield, and Outdoor Life, as well as managing editor of National Lampoon. In addition to print journalism, Kaminsky has worked extensively in television as a writer and executive producer, including contributions to the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor (e.g., 11th Annual for George Carlin), Stevie Wonder: In Performance at the White House - The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize, and Paul Simon: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. He earned a BA from Princeton University and has resided in Brooklyn, New York.