Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page

[Jason Perlow]

We are delighted to announce that Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page will be joining us for a Q&A on Sept 24th 2003.

Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page are the husband-and-wife author team behind the 1996 James Beard Award-winning book Becoming a Chef: With Recipes and Reflections from America's Leading Chefs (1995), Culinary Artistry (1996), Dining Out: Secrets from America's Leading Critics, Chefs and Restaurateurs (1998), and Chef's Night Out: From Four-Star Restaurants to Neighborhood Favorites: 100 Top Chefs Tell You Where (and How!) to Enjoy America's Best (2001).

They have two new books coming out in October 2003: The New American Chef: Cooking with the Best of Flavors and Techniques from Around the World (which advance reviews called a "brilliant" "groundbreaking," "glorious work" that is "perhaps their best book yet") and a revised edition of Becoming A Chef.

They are co-hosts of the show "Chef's Night Out" on Taxi Vu, which airs in the backseats of New York City taxicabs and has featured chefs ranging from Terrance Brennan (Artisanal, Picholine, and Terrance Brennan's Seafood and Chop House) to Diane Forley and Michael Otsuka (Verbena, Bar Demi) to Amy Scherber (Amy's Bread) to Tom Valenti (Ouest) on where they like to eat on their nights off.

Called "the brightest young author team on the culinary scene today" on National Public Radio, Dornenburg and Page have been featured extensively in the media, from "The Today Show" to the Food Network to CNN Headline News, as well as other TV and radio shows nationwide. Their books, cited as "the best place to experience the cult of the New American chef" by The New Yorker, have received wide coverage in publications including American Way, Bon Appetit, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit News, Gourmet, New York magazine, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Playboy, The San Francisco Chronicle, Time Out: New York, Town & Country, and The Washington Post.

Married since 1990, the couple lives in New York City.