Fluent in five languages, a graduate of McGill University, widely travelled Byron Ayanoglu was the author of 12 books: fiction, non-fiction, cookbooks and restaurant guides as well as 14 stage plays, including Ordinaryman. He worked in film and TV, including as a co-host of Anthony Bourdain – No Reservations, Greek Islands Episode, 2008, host of Roadside Restaurants, a 90-minute restaurant cooking show for PBS, 1997. He also wrote and produced Faces of Myth (2004), Mimetoliths (2006), Shapeshifter (2007), and MasterClass with Walter Lassally (2008).

Books by Byron Ayanoglu

A Traveler's Tale

Crete on the Half Shell