Dorie Greenspan: Guest Author

Location: New York City; Westbrook, Connecticut; and Paris, France

Expertise: Baking, French cuisine

Award-winning author of 14 cookbooks
Winner of five James Beard Awards for her cookbooks and journalism
2-time winner of IACP Cookbook of the Year Award
Awarded the Mérite d’ Agricole (the Order of Agricultural Merit) by the French Consulate

Experience

In her previous life, Dorie Greenspan gave up working on her doctorate in gerontology to bake cookies in a restaurant basement and hasn't looked back since. She is a New York Times best-selling author with fourteen cookbooks, including Baking With Dorie, Everyday Dorie, Dorie's Cookies, Around My French Table, Baking With Julia, and Baking Chez Moi. She served as a columnist for The Washington Post and The New York Times Magazine and continues writing for her popular newsletter xoxoDorie newsletter on Substack. She has won five James Beard Awards for her cookbooks and journalism and was inducted into the Who’s Who of Food and Beverage in America. Additionally Dorie was awarded Awarded the Mérite d’ Agricole (the Order of Agricultural Merit) by the French Consulate for her outstanding writing on French cuisine.

Cooking journey: "I burned my parents’ kitchen down when I was 12 and didn’t cook again until I got married."

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