A Weekend Taste with David Rosengarten

Food Network Show Host: "Taste"

Enjoy this unique opportunity to spend the weekend Tasting Gourmet Food, Pairing Wines and Cooking
with David Rosengarten

Journalist, author, restaurant critic, teacher and TV chef, David Rosengarten is passionate about food and wine. As FoodNetwork.com's wine-and-drinks expert, David reaches millions of American homes each week with insights and opinions on what makes wine and food both fun and fabulous. He has great enthusiasm for all food -- from luxury comestibles, such as foie gras and caviar, to such favorites as great burgers and perfectly crafted tuna salad sandwiches.
Gourmet magazine's former restaurant critic and a contributing editor, David feels the most important element in restaurant reviews is accurate and precise identification of a chef's style. His articles on food, wine and travel including hundreds of original recipes have appeared in The New York Times, Newsday (where he was the weekly wine columnist from 1988 to 1993), Food & Wine, Bon Appetit, Harper's Bazaar, House Beautiful, Business Week, New York's Daily News, Wine Spectator, and more.
David co-authored Red Wine with Fish: The New Art of Matching Wine With Food (Simon & Schuster, 1989) and co-published the highly acclaimed newsletter The Wine & Food Companion. In 1996, Random House published David's Dean & DeLuca Cookbook, a 500-recipe book inspired by America's most famous gourmet grocery. He also authored the cookbook Taste (Random House, 1998), based on his Food Network show of the same name. Taste has won numerous awards, including the Julia Child Best International Cookbook of 1999 award.

His latest cookbook is called It's All American Food (Little Brown & Company).

BIO:

Mr. Rosengarten is a TV chef, food writer, cookbook author, cooking teacher, wine writer, and travel writer. He is the Editor-in-Chief of The Rosengarten Report, a national, subscription-only newsletter (with nearly 40,000 paid subscribers), which covers the most exciting food products, restaurants, wines and travel destinations. In May 2003, The Rosengarten Report received the James Beard Award as best food-and-wine newsletter in the country. Information about the newsletterb'-as well as information about other Rosengarten ventures, such as a line of products, gastronomic clubs, and Rosengarten-led cruises--is available on Rosengartenb's web site, http://www.davidrosengarten.com/.

Mr. Rosengarten is perhaps best known for his work on the Food Network, where he has hosted or co-hosted approximately 2500 TV shows; he was, for example, co-anchor of In Food Today, with Donna Hanover, and host/chef of Taste, a cooking show devoted to teaching the principles of good taste in food and wine. Taste was nominated in 1996 by the James Beard Foundation as Best National TV Cooking Show, and the New York Times praised Taste, noting that "Mr. Rosengarten has reconceived the idea of what a cooking show can be." Mr. Rosengarten also appears as a guest on a wide range of television shows on other networks--most notably on NBC, where he is a frequent guest on Today.

Mr. Rosengarten was the New York restaurant critic, and a Contributing Editor, for Gourmet magazine, from 1995-1999. Prior to that, he was Contributing Food Editor and restaurant critic for Departures (American Express' deluxe magazine for platinum card holders). Mr. Rosengarten's articles about food, wine and travel including hundreds of original recipesb have appeared in the New York Times, Newsday (Mr. Rosengarten was weekly wine columnist), Food & Wine (where Mr. Rosengarten wrote a regular column on food with wine), The Wine Spectator (where Mr. Rosengarten was an editor and columnist for many years), Bon Appetit, Harper's Bazaar, House Beautiful, Business Week, Metropolitan Home, The New York Daily News, The New York Observer, Expedia Travels, Cigar Aficionado, The San Jose Mercury News, Diversion, among other publications.

Mr. Rosengarten has written five major cookbooks. He is the co-author of Red Wine with Fish: The New Art of Matching Wine with Food, a cooking-and-wine book published by Simon & Schuster in 1989. In September 1996, Random House published The Dean & DeLuca Cookbook, by Mr. Rosengarten, a 500-recipe book devoted to the food and food ideas of America's most famous grocery; to date, it has sold more than 250,000 copies. His cookbook based on his TV cooking show, Taste, was published by Random House in October 1998, and won the IACP/Julia Child Cookbook Award for Best International Cookbook of 1999, as well as the Versailles Award in France for "Best Cookbook Based on a TV Show." In October, 2003, Little Brown (owned by Time Warner) published, It's ALL American Food, a compendium of almost 500 recipes for the things that Americans really eat every day; in May, 2004, it won the James Beard Award as "Best Cookbook on the Cooking of the Americas. His latest book, David Rosengarten Entertains, was published by Wiley in October, 2004.

Mr. Rosengarten's next book project is The Encyclopedia of American Food & Drink, to be published by Clarkson Potter in the fall of 2008.

In addition to his active involvement in professional organizations, Mr. Rosengarten is a much sought-after jurist for wine, food, chef and sommelier competitions. He teaches wine and cooking classes on many subjects, and travels frequently throughout the U .S., Europe, Latin America and Asia, where he writes and lectures on a wide range of culinary and enological topics. He holds a doctorate in dramatic literature from Cornell University, and was an assistant professor of theatre (criticism, history, directing) at Skidmore College. He resides in New York City.