Instructors

Christy Canterbury is a Master of Wine (one of only 30 Americans to achieve the title) and a wine buyer, journalist and educator who lives between Manhattan and the vineyards of the world,...

Elayne Duke is a mixologist and spirits ambassador for Diageo (the world's leading premium drinks business with brands across spirits, wines, and beer categories). She was most recently honored...

Andy Fisher has been President of Astor Wines & Spirits for over 30 years. When he started in 1971, it was a small shop in the middle of Astor Place. In 1980 he expanded to the corner of Astor Place...

After graduating from The Culinary Institute of America, Kimberly moved to New York City, where she worked in celebrated restaurants such as Cafe Gray and Alto. She continued her education with The...

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...

Tess, now Brooklyn-based, has been a lifelong world traveler and lover of food and drink. She holds the advanced certification from the Wine and Spirit Education Trust, as well as an MA from...

May Matta-Aliah is the President of In the Grape, an organization dedicated to making wine and spirits education accessible to everyone. She is a long-time instructor at the prestigious...

Michael J. Neff opened bespoke cocktail bar Ward III in Tribeca in 2009, which features over 150 brown spirits. He opened The Rum House a year and a half later, because Times Square needs good...

Theresa Paopao is the Wine Director for the Momofuku Restaurants. She hails from Hilo, Hawaii, via Boulder, Baltimore and Boston. Sometime after stints as a carpenter, a dancer, and a...

Culinary educator Emily Peterson combined her love of cooking with a Master's in Teaching and walked away from a career in educational administration, returning to her roots in the...

Jonathan Pogash is currently a mixologist and consultant for bars, restaurants and spirit companies. Trained by such cocktail luminaries as Gary Regan and Albert Trummer, Jonathan moved up in the...

Carl Raymond’s culinary passions began years ago growing up on the coast of Maine and combine his strong New England roots with a fascination with world cuisine. After spending a year living and...

Robin Robinson has combined his background in theatre and sales with a life-long love of single malt Scotch whisky to serve as the US Brand Ambassador for Compass Box Whisky. As such, he is...

William Rubel has been baking bread since he was eleven. He mills most of his own flour, bakes in his backyard wood-fired bread oven, and for the last six years has immersed himself in the history of...

Noted food historian and lecturer, Francine Segan, whose Opera Lover's Cookbook was nominated for awards by both the James Beard Foundation and IACP, appears on numerous radio and TV programs. She...

Jenn started working in food at 13, and in college passed on work-study shifts at the library in order to serve beer and shots in a biker bar, work the overnight shift at a bakery in Boston, manage a...

Timothy Sullivan is proud to be a "Saké Samurai". He was awarded the title in 2007 by the Japan Saké Brewer's Association in recognition of his efforts to promote saké outside of Japan. Now a saké...

April is a recent transplant from Boston, where she has been bartending for the past decade. She has worked in a range of venues, from fine dining restaurants to cocktail bars, and was featured as a...

David Wondrich is widely recognized as one of the world's foremost authorities on cocktails and their history. "A living iPod of drink lore and recipes", as the New York Times has labeled him, Dr....

Nellie Wu, the general manager at W&T Seafood, has been a seafood lover for most of her life. Her family started a small retail seafood shop in Lower Manhattan 25 years ago, which today has expanded...