Background
Born in New York City, Rossant is the daughter of New Yorker James Rossant, architect and designer of Reston, Virginia, and Parisienne Colette Rossant, cookbook author and food writer
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Modern tales of culinary adventure offer insight into six master chefs who went beyond creating fabulous cuisine to build multinational food empires.
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Wolfgang Puck -- Charlie Palmer -- Todd English -- Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger -- Tom Colicchio: These are men and women who were not content merely to run a great restaurant; they wanted to create multinational food empires. And they did. In Super Chef, veteran journalist Juliette Rossant takes you on an unprecedented tour inside the business of the food business, one of the world's most glamorous -- and little-known -- industries. You catch glimpses of them everywhere: on television, in tabloid gossip columns pictured at glitzy parties with Hollywood stars and power brokers, in national magazine stories about their latest business projects. You buy their products at your local supermarket or online, or maybe even stay at their hotels. Traditional chefs may have stayed in the kitchen and rarely ventured into the public eye, but a growing number of today's top chefs are utilizing skills seldom taught in cooking school -- trading anonymity for celebrity and rising to build culinary empires. Juliette Rossant goes behind the scenes with these new moguls to reveal the key ingredients that go into making a Super Chef. Culinary talent remains the base component, but today's Super Chef must be a whole lot more -- equal parts entrepreneur, realtor, fundraiser, publicist, and media star. In Super Chef, Rossant profiles six of the hottest names in the industry today. From Wolfgang Puck's Spago Beverly Hills to his pizza in your freezer, from Charlie Palmer's Microsoft-powered eWinebook to Todd English on the QM2, from Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger's appearing as the Food Network's Too Hot Tamales to New York's most recent contender Tom Colicchio of both Gramercy Tavern and Craft -- Rossant spins their tales of haute cuisine and corporate conquest. Each of these culinary magnates has taken a unique path to the top, and Rossant adds up the variations in their experiences to offer a gripping and astute look at what it takes to become the cream of the crop. Juliette Rossant knows food, celebrity, and business. She has covered extensively the empire-building celebrity chefs for Forbes, and has been granted unfettered access to her subjects, their staffs, financiers, and families. The result is a rollicking culinary adventure that food lovers, celebrity watchers, and business fans cannot miss.
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Born in New York City, Rossant is the daughter of New Yorker James Rossant, architect and designer of Reston, Virginia, and Parisienne Colette Rossant, cookbook author and food writer
After graduating from Saint Ann"s School in Brooklyn, Rossant attended Dartmouth College and then the Johns Hopkins University, where she studied Creative Writing.
She traces her maternal line back through the Palacci family, Sephardic Jews who moved from Spain to Italy to Istanbul to Cairo. Her great-great-grandfather owned lemon perfume factories in Upper Egypt. Her great-grandfather owned a well-known department store in Cairo.
Rossant started publishing poems in Extensions literary magazine when she was 14 years old.
At Dartmouth, she co-founded The Stonefence Review literary magazine as an alternative to the highly conservative Dartmouth Review. She studied under Richard Eberhart and Kenneth Koch.
Overseas
Rossant began work in Journalism while living in Istanbul in the late 1980s. She continued as a journalist while based in Paris, Moscow, and Jeddah, writing for newspapers and magazines (including Business Week).
Her reportage included the Kurds in Northern Iraq during the Gulf War, fighting between Armenians and Azeris in Nagorno-Karabagh, and developments in the oil industry in Central Asia and the Middle East.
Forbes
Returning to the United States., Rossant joined Forbes and Forbes Global to write on international business including the Forbes annual, global Billionaires List. Because of her Middle East experience, she covered the "Africa and Middle East" sections of that list every year with Forbes. Rossant also started the Celebrity Chefs column in the Forbes annual Celebrity 100 issue, which she wrote for three years.
Super Chef
= Book Simon & Schuster published Rossant"s book Super Chef (Free Press imprint), based on a specific definition she developed from her work at Forbes.
The book profiles six "super chefs": Wolfgang Puck, Charlie Palmer, Todd English, Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger (AKA the "Too Hot Tamales"), and Tom Colicchio. The book was nominated by Fast Company magazine for best book
Several cooking schools for chefs have used the book as a textbook. = Magazine Rossant continues to track the development of super chefs in Super Chef, online magazine by the same name.
In 2005, the magazine championed the White House"s selection of the first woman executive chef and then predicted the First Lady"s choice of Cristeta Comerford.
In late 2009, Super Chef began publishing in a new format. In early 2010, the magazine began running contributions, particularly from chefs. Other
Rossant has consulted to a number of companies on branding issues related to super chefs.
Rossant has become an expert, city by the Newsweek, New York Daily News, Baltimore Sun, Brand Channel, and Gastronomica.
She has lectured at the Culinary Institute of America and the Institute for Culinary Education. She has also contributed to publications, from Portfolio to Saudi Aramco World.
She also continues to write books She has completed a children"s book and is working on her first novel.
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