Andrew Friedman

<p><strong>Andrew Friedman </strong>is the author of <em>Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll: How Food Lovers, Free Spirits, Misfits and Wanderers Created a New American Profession </em>(2018), and producer and host of the independent podcast <em>Andrew Talks to Chefs</em>, currently in its sixth year. He is also the author of <em>Knives at Dawn: America’s Quest for Culinary Glory at the Legendary Bocuse d’Or Competition </em>(2009), co-editor of the internationally popular anthology <em>Don’t Try This at Home: Culinary Catastrophes from the World’s Greatest Chefs</em>, 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 <em>New York Times </em>bestselling memoir <em>Breaking Back: How I Lost Everything and Won Back My Life </em>(2007), and was for several years a <em>TENNIS </em>magazine editor-at-large. He lives in Brooklyn, NY. </p>