Awards

• Short-listed for IACP Crystal Whisk Award (Food Reference) 1999
• Short-listed for James Beard Foundation Book Awards (Reference/Writing: Food) 1999

Overview

Meet the people behind the restaurants and the reviews, and learn how their insight can help turn your next meal out, into a world-class dining event. For generations, chefs, restaurateurs and food enthusiasts have watched their world revolve around a small but enormously powerful cabal known simply as restaurant reviewers. In their new book, Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page leave the kitchen for the dining room, to shine a light on the world of the culinary critics, shadowy figures often dining incognito, whose public judgments can make or break a restaurant. Drawing on interviews with the nation's most important critics including Ruth Reichl of the New York Times, Phyllis Richman of The Washington Post, and Dennis Ray Wheaton of Chicago Magazine, as well as celebrity chefs and restaurateurs, Dornenburg and Page serve up a rare look into the reviewing process, and reveal some of the pros' secrets for creating-and enjoying-a four-star dining experience. Chefs and restaurateurs are offered inside information on how to create a four-star dining experience. * First time exposure of the mysterious food critic. Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page (both of New York City) are the authors of the best selling titles Becoming a Chef and Culinary Artistry. Their first book, Becoming a Chef, won the 1996 James Beard Award for Best Writing on Food.

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Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page are co--authors of a groundbreaking trilogy of books chronicling America's vibrant restaurant culture. Dornenburg has cooked professionally in some of the best restaurants on the East Coast, including Arcadia, Judson Grill, and March in New York City, and Biba and the East Coast Grill in Boston. He attended the School for American Chefs, where he studied with Madeleine Kamman. Page, the recipient of the 1997 Melitta Bentz Award for Women's Achievement, is a graduate of the Harvard Business School (whose alumnae network she heads) and Northwestern University, which named her to The Council of 100 (leading alumnae). ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHERS: Michael Donnelly is a New York--based photographer whose work has appeared in Elle, House & Garden, Travel & Leisure, and The World of Interiors. Fiona Donnelly is a feature writer, fashion stylist, and contributing editor at Bride's.

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