BUY TICKETS HERE to join Every Kid’s a Critic with Rozanne Gold, James Beard Award Winner on Saturday, February 28th at 10AM

Rozanne Gold is a celebrated chef, author, journalist, and philanthropist known for her prolific voice and storied career. At the age of 23, she was the first chef to New York Mayor Ed Koch and went on to become consulting chef to the Rainbow Room and Windows on the World.  A four-time winner of the James Beard Award, Ms. Gold is the author of thirteen cookbooks and more than six hundred articles about food, trends and dining culture. She has written and produced stories for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and numerous national publications.  A food trends pundit, she has anticipated – and advocated for – culinary change and is responsible for the creation of some of the country’s most enduring trends.  Ms. Gold was the former entertaining columnist for Bon Appetit magazine, and was responsible for saving Gourmet magazine’s library by purchasing it and donating it to New York University.  After Hurricane Sandy, Ms. Gold established a pop-up kitchen in Brooklyn to prepare and deliver 185,000 meals to those in need.  A frequent guest on National Public Radio, Ms. Gold mentors many young women and men in the food industry.  She is currently pursing an MFA in poetry at the New School, exploring the idea of spiritual nourishment at the end of life.  She has a particular love of cooking with children and teens and wrote two acclaimed books for that market:  Kids Cook 1-2-3 andEat Fresh Food: Awesome Recipes for Teen Chefs, which was featured in the science section of the New York Times.  Ms. Gold started cooking early on and carried a cookbook around the house when she was five.