Lecture by former New York Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni

Frank Bruni, former restaurant critic for The New York Times and a UNC alumnus, gave a free, public lecture in the Carroll Hall auditorium on Nov. 5.

Bruni’s talk, titled “An Extraordinary Journalistic Adventure,” covers his varied, versatile career in journalism that has spanned movie coverage, Vatican reporting, the presidential campaign trail, and restaurant criticism. From flying on the Pope’s plane, to sitting on the back porch in Kennebunkport with George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush, to dining with actors Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, to riding in a Bradley fighting vehicle across Saddam Hussein’s Iraq for several days, his career has run a fascinating gamut. A book signing will follow. As an undergraduate at UNC, Bruni was a Morehead scholar and worked on the staff of the The Daily Tar Heel. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1986 with a B.A. in English.

His talk was sponsored by the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media/Carnegie-Knight Fund, UNC School of Medicine, UNC Eating Disorders Program, UNC Center for Women’s Mood Disorders, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and UNC School of Social Work/Daniels Endowment.