Claudine Ko writes about food, popular culture and science for print and online media. She's dined at Les Halles with culinary raconteur Anthony Bourdain, clinked whiskey-filled glasses with chef Masaharu Morimoto, and taken notes back-of-house at Le Bernardin from Eric Ripert. She's been journalistically embedded among surfer girls on the North Shore, Club Med workers in Turks & Caicos, funeral directors outside of Detroit, flight-attendant trainees in the U.K., Peace Corps in Peru, street racers in California, and competitive eaters in Chattanooga, TN. She wrote that American Apparel story. She also worked at the PBS series Nova and can explain how to synthesize an anabolic steroid from a Mexican yam.

Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Nova Online, Jane, Men's Health, Food Network Magazine, Country Living, O at Home, New York, Nylon, Nylon Guys, Maxim, Bust, Chicago Tribune, Page Six Magazine, Paper, The Village Voice, Giant Robot, Interview, Abitare, The Believer, Esquire (Romania), and SuperScience. She was a contributing writer for Eastern Standard Time (1997, Houghton Mifflin) and coauthored Kenneth Cole's Awearness: Inspiring Stories About How to Make a Difference (2008, Melcher Media/DK Publishing).

Claudine earned her B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley (English Literature and Contemporary Chinese Culture), an M.A. from New York University (Cultural Reporting & Criticism), and has studied at the Institute of Culinary Education. She lives in NYC and California.