Peter Elliot (born December 9, 1966) is an American writer, editor, and media personality best known for his biography of restaurateur Sirio Maccioni, ''Sirio: The Story of My Life and Le Cirque'' and for the development of DINE, the restaurant search engine and lifestyle portal for the global financial news and media company

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. He is currently manager of Lifestyle Products at

Background

Elliot was born in New York City and grew up in New York City, London, and Scotland. He attended the

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in Scotland. His parents are Judith Francisco, former dancer, and Robert H. Leach, former Head of Marketing at

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and senior partner at Norman, Craig & Kümmel.

Career

Elliot started his career with

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in London tracking oil tankers and eventually

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and the newly reemerging East European and Russian oil industry. He was the youngest ever cover story writer for

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. In 1991 an introduction to

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– who had just founded his fledgling news company – led to Elliot working on their commodities team. When Bloomberg bought WNEW in 1992, Bloomberg asked Elliot to anchor the commodities segment and also to widen out into lifestyle-related news, data, and services. Following this expansion Elliot worked on DINE, which was designed for the

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to give Bloomberg clients and employees a platform to discuss, rate, and review restaurants in a private forum with their peers.

Writing

Elliot wrote the biography of restaurateur Sirio Maccioni, ''Sirio: The Story of My Life and Le Cirque'' and his writing has been featured in ''

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'' and '' Town & Country''.

Radio

From 1993 to 2001 Elliot's food program was broadcast on Bloomberg Radio. Interview guests included leading food industry personalities, notably

Mario Batali Mario Francesco Batali (born September 19, 1960) is an American chef, writer, and restaurateur. Batali co-owned restaurants in New York City; Las Vegas; Los Angeles; and Newport Beach, California; Boston; Singapore; Westport, Connecticut; and N ...

, Ruthi Reichl, Anthony Bourdain,

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, and George Lang.

Television

2005 – Iron Chef America: Season 1, Episode 13 "Mario Batali vs. Anita Lo" – Guest Judge.

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