Michael Krondl
Michael Krondl is a chef, cooking teacher and food writer. He has authored several books, most recently The Taste of Conquest: The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice, praised by the Boston Globe as “an altogether rich, perfectly seasoned slice of world history.” He has written on food and travel for numerous magazines including Marie Claire, Family Circle, Culture + Travel, American Health, and Condé Nast’s Traveler to name just a few. He is an acclaimed cooking teacher. His class “Cooking 101” at the New School’s Culinary Center was chosen by New York Magazine as the “best one-day introductory cooking class” in New York. He has taught both academic and hands-on cooking classes on subjects as varied as the Carnival foods of Venice, the cuisine of the Riviera, Sephardic Passover, Viennese desserts and the history of American foodways among many others. He has worked as a chef in both Toronto and New York. For more information see spicehistory.net.