Troy Johnson is one of the most popular and richest TV Show Host who was born on August 13, 1973 in San Diego, California, United States. Food writer who found fame as the host and writer of the Food Network show Crave. He has also served as the senior editor for Modern Luxury as well as the food and restaurant editor for San Diego Magazine.
He and Beau MacMillan have both been judges on the show Guy’s Grocery Games.
Johnson was raised in Rancho Peñasquitos, a suburb of San Diego, and attended Mt. Carmel High School. He graduated in 1997 from California State University, Chico with a bachelor’s degree in speech communications and poetry.
After college, he began writing as a music journalist where from 2002 to 2007 he was the music editor of the San Diego CityBeat. During that time he wrote pieces for Billboard and Spin. He has also written articles for magazines such as Surfer, Rolling Stone, Mojo and Paper. He also wrote and hosted a San Diego TV show about indie rock called Fox Rox, which ran from 2001 to 2007. The show garnered a number of local Emmy Awards. From 2006-2007, he hosted a San Diego Padres pregame show entitled Outta Left Field. In 2007, he parlayed his music journalism into food writing. In 2007 as the senior editor of Modern Luxury’s Riviera magazine, working under James Beard Award winner Brad Johnson. Johnson soon developed a reputation as a food critic.
He has been married and has a daughter.
