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name: Scott Gold
about: Originally from New Orleans, Scott Gold graduated from Washington University in St. Louis, where he studied philosophy and Italian literature in an effort to ensure a toehold in the competitive world of professional unemployment. Deciding having a job was considerably more glamorous than being a derelict (albeit a well-educated one), he attended the Radcliffe Publishing Course, then made his way to New York and around the various corridors of the book publishing world, working variously as a literary agent, a foreign rights manager, and a sales rep. He began the website ShamelessCarnivore.com in late 2005 as a way to explore his true passion for both writing and all things meaty and delicious, which eventually became the basis for this, his Originally from New Orleans, Scott Gold graduated from Washington University in St. Louis, where he studied philosophy and Italian literature in an effort to ensure a toehold in the competitive world of professional unemployment. Deciding having a job was considerably more glamorous than being a derelict (albeit a well-educated one), he attended the Radcliffe Publishing Course, then made his way to New York and around the various corridors of the book publishing world, working variously as a literary agent, a foreign rights manager, and a sales rep. He began the website ShamelessCarnivore.com in late 2005 as a way to explore his true passion for both writing and all things meaty and delicious, which eventually became the basis for this, his first book. When he's not writing about eating steaks, snakes, guinea pigs and squirrels, Scott sings and plays guitar in the eleven-member, Brooklyn-based rock spectacle Bling Kong. He also likes many vegetables. ...more