Food Heroes: Sixteen Culinary Artisans Preserving Tradition
Georgia Pellegrini's passion for artisanal foods began when she was a child growing up in the Hudson Valley, where her family raised chickens and honeybees, and where the notion of local and sustainable was a daily practice. She attended Wellesley and Harvard and spent a brief stint on Wall Street before attending the French Culinary Institute in New York.Pellegrini has worked in two of New York's most esteemed restaurants-Gramercy Tavern and Blue Hill at Stone Barns-as well as in one of the premier restaurants in France, La Chassagnette. She currently roams the world, tasting good food and meeting the good people who make it--and writing about them on her popular blog: www.georgiapellegrini.com.