Friedman

Andrew Friedman is the author of Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll: How Food Lovers, Free Spirits, Misfits and Wanderers Created a New American Profession (2018), and producer and host of the independent podcast Andrew Talks to Chefs , currently in its sixth year. He is also the author of Knives at Dawn: America's Quest for Culinary Glory at the Legendary Bocuse d'Or Competition (2009), co-editor of the internationally popular anthology Don't Try This at Home: Culinary Catastrophes from the World's...See more

Andrew Friedman is the author of Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll: How Food Lovers, Free Spirits, Misfits and Wanderers Created a New American Profession (2018), and producer and host of the independent podcast Andrew Talks to Chefs , currently in its sixth year. He is also the author of Knives at Dawn: America's Quest for Culinary Glory at the Legendary Bocuse d'Or Competition (2009), co-editor of the internationally popular anthology Don't Try This at Home: Culinary Catastrophes from the World's Greatest Chefs , and co-author of more than twenty-five cookbooks, memoirs, and other projects with some of the United States' finest and most well-known chefs. Additionally, he is an adjunct professor within the School of Graduate and Professional Studies at the Culinary Institute of America. An avid tennis player, 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. See less