Information on writers who contributed articles :

Jeffrey Steingarten, author of "The Man who Ate Everything", has been the internationally feared and acclaimed food critic of Vogue magazine for the past eight years. He attended Harvard College, Harvard Law School, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and worked for the Harvard Lampoon. Recently he has also become the food correspondent for the online magazine Slate. For essays in this collection, Mr. Steingarten has won countless awards from the James Beard Foundation and the International Association of Culinary Professionals. On Bastille Day, 1994, the French Republic made him a Chevalier in the Order of Merit for his writing on French gastronomy.

Liz Young, a certified culinary professional and licensed NYC guide, specializes in exclusive gourmet walking tours in Manhattan and Brooklyn. She is the founder of Liz Young Tours, offering culinary excursions in NYC. She also serves as the Associate Editor of Topics in Clinical Nutrition, Vice President of the NY Women’s Culinary Alliance, on the Board of the American Institute of Wine and Food and is a member of Les Dames d’Escoffier New York, the International Association of Culinary Professionals, the American Culinary Federation, Women’s Chefs and Restaurateurs and New York City & Company.

Since 2003, Liz has been leading culinary walking tours for clients in New York City, including culinary and social organizations, businesses and families, universities and corporations, and in her public tours. Liz is a dynamic guide to the city’s best gourmet areas and strives to share the history and beauty of NYC while showcasing the best food operations in each neighborhood.

The entrepreneur, culinarian and editor developed her restaurant and hospitality philosophies while working as general manager of two restaurants and during her tenure as Director of the world’s largest avocational cooking division.

She has a Master’s degree in Food Studies and Food Management from New York University and graduated from the NY Restaurant School and Ursinus College in PA. When not touring, she splits her time between Park Slope and Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan in New York City. To learn more about Liz and the delicious touring opportunities in NYC, call 646-286-8065 or visit her website: www.LizYoungTours.com.

Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson teaches cultural sociology at Columbia University and spends a lot of time thinking and writing about food. Besides studies of French literary culture and Paris in the 19th century, she has written numerous articles on food in its cultural settings, as well as a book on French culinary culture, “Accounting for taste: The Triumph of French Cuisine” (2004, French translation for 2009).
www.sociology.columbia.edu/fac-bios/ferguson/faculty

For over 15 years, Kimberly Yorio has specialized in the development of strategic publicity and promotions campaigns for cookbooks, food-related personalities and products, chefs and restaurants.
After co-founding YC Media with Caitlin, Kim has driven campaigns ranging from the launch of Sur La Table’s first store in Manhattan to the creation and promotion of the Beard Papa brand.  Among the firm’s talent clients, she has led the media efforts for Jamie Oliver and his last six cookbooks, as well as the launch of TLC’s Take Home Chef, “Curtis Stone.”

Caitlin Friedman is a public relations and marketing professional with more than fifteen years of consumer, food and beverage, publishing, and television-production experience.
As a partner in YC Media, Caitlin has led a variety of publicity efforts including the creation of “The American Chef,” an events company centered around White House Executive Chef Walter Scheib, and the successful launch of the new concept, Vino Volo, a high-end chain of wine tasting lounges in airports.

Dr. Peter Klosse is founder and director of "The Academy for Gastonomy" in the Netherlands. His restaurant there, "The Echoput", won the prestigious 2008 IHRA award of "Best New Restaurant in the World". He has written a doctorate thesis on taste at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands and has also written many books on pairing wine with food. www.echoput.nl

Ronald Huiskamp is a regular columnist for Reed Business Publications and has over 20 years of experience in the hospitality business with a focus on restaurant operations. He published “Great Restaurant Concepts”, with photography by Jan Bartelsman, in 2001. Ronald is an international guest speaker on conceptual thinking in the hospitality industry.

Tom Rietveld built an enterprise running shops and coffee counters in Dutch hospitals. After selling his business in 1988, he started Rietveld Creativity in Business in the Netherlands, and has received an Innovation Award FEM-PA. This summer his first book for children, “Unknown Fishes want to be Famous”, is scheduled for release. Tom gives interviews and writes articles about people with culinary passion.

Will Jansen is a well-known Dutch food writer, with more than 10 books to his name. He is also the distributor and the editor-in-chief of Bouillon, a gastronomic quarterly full of reports, stories and tales about the world of restaurants, food and drinks, twice awarded the Gourmand World Cook Book Award. He has done interviews with a greater part of the European three-star Michelin chefs like Alain Ducasse, Nadia Santini, Jonnie Boer, Pierre Gagnaire, Ferran Adria, but also American chefs like Thomas Keller, Charly Trotter and Testuya Wakuda.

Therese Boer is co-author of many books on food and wine, and, with her husband Jonnie Boer, is co-owner of three-star Michelin Restaurant and Hotel "The Librije" in the Netherlands. www.librije.com

Culinary journalist Maarten van der Jagt is author and editor-in-chief of various cookbooks for renowned chefs in the Netherlands and international culinary guidebooks and wine magazines. He is also a restaurant critic and coordinator of IENS, the online Dutch counterpart of Zagat’s. He has been a food judge on many Dutch TV culinary programs, and has published manuals on espresso techniques.