Journalist, author, restaurant critic, teacher and TV chef, David Rosengarten is passionate about food and wine. As FoodNetwork.com's wine-and-drinks expert, David reaches millions of American homes each week with insights and opinions on what makes wine and food both fun and fabulous. He has great enthusiasm for all food -- from luxury comestibles, such as foie gras and caviar, to such favorites as great burgers and perfectly crafted tuna salad sandwiches.

Gourmet magazine's former restaurant critic and a contributing editor, David feels the most important element in restaurant reviews is accurate and precise identification of a chef's style. His articles on food, wine and travel —- including hundreds of original recipes —- have appeared in The New York Times, Newsday (where he was the weekly wine columnist from 1988 to 1993), Food & Wine, Bon Appetit, Harper's Bazaar, House Beautiful, Business Week, New York's Daily News, Wine Spectator, and more.

David co-authored Red Wine with Fish: The New Art of Matching Wine With Food (Simon & Schuster, 1989) and co-published the highly acclaimed newsletter The Wine & Food Companion. In 1996, Random House published David's Dean & DeLuca Cookbook, a 500-recipe book inspired by America's most famous gourmet grocery. He also authored the cookbook Taste (Random House, 1998), based on his Food Network show of the same name. Taste has won numerous awards, including the Julia Child Best International Cookbook of 1999 award.

His latest cookbook is called It's All American Food (Little Brown & Company, 2003).