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Ozersky was found dead on Monday in a room in Chicago's
Conrad Hotel. He was in town for the James Beard Foundation
Awards for restaurants and chefs, the foundation said.
An autopsy was conducted on Tuesday, but further tests were
pending regarding the cause and manner of death, the Cook County
Medical Examiner's office said.
"Josh Ozersky was a meat man. He knew meat, revered it, studied
it, sang it, evangelized it, wrote about it, and, of course, ate
it. Lots of it," wrote journalist Tom Junod in an obituary in
Esquire, where Ozersky was a food and dining correspondent.
Ozersky also chronicled his adventures in carnivorism in Time,
the Wall Street Journal and other periodicals. His latest book
was "The Hamburger: A History."
"My kitchen looks like a cult-murder scene when I'm done with
it," he wrote in a recent Esquire column.
Fellow food writers and chefs paid tribute to him as a feisty
intellectual most at home in greasy, hot kitchens full of
tattooed food workers, and who frequently sparred with friends,
restaurateurs, other food writers and chefs.
On his Internet video program, ozersky.tv, where he posted
through 2013, he mused about meat, books and "rivulets of fat."
He lived for years in New York City, where his 10th annual
Meatopia, "The Carnivore's Ball," was held last October,
featuring 30 chefs and 48 animals, as Ozersky posted on the
event's Facebook page. Last year, he moved to the West Coast
foodie haven of Portland, Oregon.
Ozersky won a James Beard Award in 2008 for his work as founding
editor of New York magazine's blog, Grub Street, the foundation
said in a memoriam on its website.
In a Grub Street blog on Tuesday, restaurant reviewer Adam Platt
recalled Ozersky quoting historians, writers and especially 18th
century British essayist Samuel Johnson.
(Reporting by Fiona Ortiz; Editing by Peter Cooney)
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