Andrew Friedman

Andrew Friedman is the author of The Dish: The Story of One Restaurant Meal, from Farm to Kitchen to Table (HarperCollins/Mariner Books, 2023) and Chefs, Drugs, and Rock & Roll: How Food Lovers, Free Spirits, Misfits, and Wanderers Created a New American Profession (HarperCollins/Ecco, 2018), and has produced and hosted the popular podcast Andrew Talks to Chefs since 2017.

He also wrote Knives at Dawn: America’s Quest for Culinary Glory at the Bocuse d’Or, the World’s Most Prestigious Cooking Competition (Free Press, 2009); co-edited the popular anthology Don’t Try This at Home; and has collaborated on more than 25 cookbooks, memoirs, and other projects with some of the United States’ finest and most well-known chefs.

He tries to give a little back to the industry by serving as an adjunct professor within the School of Graduate and Professional Studies at the Culinary Institute of America, and as a member of the Board of the charitable organization Citymeals on Wheels, which delivers free, nutritious meals to homebound, elderly New Yorkers.

An avid tennis player, he also coauthored the Breaking Back: How I Lost Everything and Won Back My Life with American tennis star James Blake. He lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.