Darra Goldstein, Date of Birth

Darra Goldstein

American writer

Date of Birth: 28-Apr-1951

Profession: cooking expert

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Darra Goldstein (born April 28, 1951), the Willcox B.
and Harriet M.
Adsit Professor of Russian, Emerita at Williams College, is an award-winning cookbook author and world-renowned food scholar.
Currently, she is the editor-in-chief of CURED Magazine, from Zero Point Zero Productions, which was launched in October 2016.
She is the founding editor of Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture, which won the 2012 James Beard award for Best Publication, and she served as its editor-in-chief from 2001 to 2012.
Recently, she has been honored as both a Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Food Studies at the Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto and as a Macgeorge Fellow at the University of Melbourne in Australia.Goldstein is also the founding series editor for the California Studies in Food and Culture and the food editor for Russian Life magazine.
Goldstein has served on a number of culinary diplomacy programs including as Cultural Envoy from the U.S.
Department of State to the Republic of Georgia (in 2013) and as a consultant on food and diversity for the Council of Europe (from 2002 to 2005) along with other USAID and European Union culinary projects.
In 1984-1985, Goldstein was the spokesperson for Stolichnaya Vodka in the United States; later in her career Goldstein also consulted for Firebird restaurant and the famed Russian Tea Room in New York City.