Awards & Recognition
★2015 James Beard Award for Best Beverage Book (Liquid Intelligence)
★2015 IACP Jane Grigson Award for Liquid Intelligence
Notable Facts
→Author of bestselling book 'Liquid Intelligence' which has sold over 170,000 copies and been reprinted 13 times
→Founder and President of Museum of Food and Drink (MOFAD) in NYC
→Former owner of Booker & Dax high-tech cocktail bar in East Village (closed 2016)
→Co-owner of Existing Conditions bar in Greenwich Village (closed during pandemic)
→Hosts 'Cooking Issues' podcast/radio show for 11+ years
→Teaches at Harvard's Science and Cooking Lecture Series
→Appeared on Jimmy Fallon, Ellen DeGeneres Show, Martha Stewart Living, Today Show
→B.A. from Yale University in Philosophy, M.F.A. from Columbia University
→Former Director of Culinary Technology at French Culinary Institute