Andrew Friedman

Andrew Friedman is the author of THE DISH: The Lives and Labor Behind One Plate of Food; Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll: How Food Lovers, Free Spirits, Misfits and Created a New American Profession (2018), and Knives at Dawn: America’s Quest for Culinary Glory at the Legendary Bocuse d’Or Competition (2009). He is also host of the independent podcast Andrew Talks to Chefs, currently in its sixth year, and co-editor of the internationally popular anthology Don’t Try This at Home: Culinary Catastrophes from the World’s Greatest Chefs. He has co-authored more than 25 cookbooks, memoirs, and other projects with some of the United States’ finest and most well-known chefs. He is an adjunct professor at the School of Graduate and Professional Studies at the Culinary Institute of America. He co-authored American tennis star James Blake’s New York Times bestselling memoir Breaking Back: How I Lost Everything and Won Back My Life (2007), and was for several years a TENNIS magazine editor-at-large. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.