Rozanne Gold

Rozanne Gold is a celebrated chef, author, journalist, and philanthropist known for her prolific and storied career. At twenty-four, she was the first chef to New York Mayor Ed Koch and later became consulting chef to the Rainbow Room and Windows on the World. A four-time winner of the prestigious James Beard Award, Ms. Gold is the author of thirteen cookbooks and more than six hundred articles about food and dining culture.  She has written for The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, and dozens of national publications.

An impassioned end-of-life doula, Ms. Gold is a former Trustee of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, and co-founder of the new “Death & Living Project.” A graduate of Tufts University (psychology), she holds an MFA (in poetry) from the New School for Social Research where she teaches “The Language of Food.” Her podcast,” One Woman Kitchen,” features the inspiring stories of the food world’s most remarkable women chefs, writers and entrepreneurs. A finalist for the 2020 Sappho Poetry Prize, she is a Board Director of “Brooklyn Poets,” and currently writing a book about food, memory and spiritual nourishment.