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Rozanne Gold, who began her career at the age of 24 as first chef to New York's Mayor Ed Koch, is a three-time winner of the prestigious James Beard Book Award and winner of the IACP/Julia Child Cookbook Award.

Ms. Gold, award-winning chef and author, is one of the most prominent women in the food world. She is Chef-Director of the renowned Joseph Baum & Michael Whiteman Co., the international restaurant consulting firm, best known for creating New York's magical Rainbow Room atop Rockefeller Center (where she was co-owner and consulting chef for 15 years), Windows on the World, and five of New York's three-star restaurants.

The author of ten cookbooks, Ms. Gold has been the entertaining columnist for Bon Appetit magazine where her "Entertaining Made Easy"column was read by five million fans. She has written and produced stories for The New York Times (her work can be found on the Op-Ed page, the Dining In Section, and Sunday Magazine) and has written for Gourmet Magazine, Oprah, Cooking Light, More, FoodArts, Modern Maturity, and M: The Montessori magazine.

As Chef to Mayor Koch, Ms. Gold cooked for Presidents and Prime Ministers and dignitaries from all walks of life. Business Week named her a "Mover and Shaker"; Cooking Light magazine named her one of "America's Top 5 Enlightened Chefs"; Chef magazine nominated her as "Innovator of the Year"; and in 1997, the Food & Beverage Association of America honored her as 'Hospitality Professional of the Year". She was named Drexel University's Distinguished Visiting Professor in 2000.

Known as the "diva of simplicity", she has set the Gold Standard for a style of cooking that has inspired professional chefs and home cooks alike to "keep it simple" with: Little Meals: A Great New Way to Eat and Cook (1994), Recipes 1-2-3: Fabulous Food Using Only Three Ingredients (1996), is published in four languages; Recipes 1-2-3 Menu Cookbook (1998), Entertaining 1-2-3 (1999) and Healthy 1-2-3 (2001). Desserts 1-2-3, published in May 2002 by Stewart, Tabori & Chang, immediately landed on the L.A. Times "Hot List" and was chosen one of the year's best cookbooks by Food & Wine Magazine. Cooking 1-2-3, published in November 2003, was chosen as one of the year's best 10 books (and the only cookbook) by Gene Shalit on NBC's Today Show on December 12, 2003.

Gold's books garnered two starred reviews from Publisher's Weekly and two of her books were chosen as Editor's Selections in the New York Times Book Review. Her fifth book, Healthy 1-2-3 was the only book in the healthy arena to be nominated for the James Beard and IACP awards. It won the coveted IACP award and was chosen as "one of the best books of 2001" by the San Francisco Chronicle.

Gold is known for creating new trends and inventing concepts that give restaurants and food companies their competitive edge. An early proponent of American regional cooking, she helped create American Spoon Foods, the first specialty food company to focus on regional ingredients. She invented Hudson River Cuisine, turning the idea into a three-star restaurant, the Hudson River Club; and was responsible for developing New York's first pan-Mediterranean restaurant (Café Greco), featuring "Med-Rim Cuisine".

Like every "celebrity chef" today, Ms. Gold has her own product on the market…her irresistible Venetian Wine Cake, manufactured by Greyston Bakery in Yonkers, NY and featured in the New York Times and New York Magazine. In addition, Ms. Gold has been 'celebrity' guest chef at the James Beard House on numerous occasions.

Ms. Gold is a frequent guest on national television, including four recent appearances on the Today Show; Real Simple; B. Smith with Style; Everyday Elegance with Colin Cowie; Good Morning America; Home Cooking on PBS; Discovery Channel's "Home Matters", Lifetime's "Our Home", the Food Network, and QVC. She appears regularly on WOR-Radio's "Food Talk" and fills in for Joan Hamburg on WOR's "Weekend" and the "Joan Hamburg Show"; and is a regular guest on NPR's "A Chef's Table".

A graduate of Tufts University with honors in psychology and education, Ms. Gold studied cooking in Italy and France. She is past President of Les Dames d'Escoffier, New York, and has just finished a screenplay about a woman chef who seeks political office. Her most recent book, Kid's Cook 1-2-3: Recipes for Young Chefs was published by Bloomsbury in 2006.

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