Rozanne Gold is a celebrated chef, author, journalist, and philanthropist known for her prolific and storied career. At twenty-four, she was the first chef to New York Mayor Ed Koch and later became consulting chef to the Rainbow Room and Windows on the World. A four-time winner of the prestigious James Beard Award, Ms. Gold is the author of thirteen cookbooks and more than six hundred articles about food and dining culture.  She has written for The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, and dozens of national publications.

      As Chef-Director of Baum + Whiteman, she has anticipated – and advocated for – culinary change and is responsible for the creation of some of the country’s most enduring trends. She was the “entertaining columnist” for Bon Appetit magazine, and responsible for saving Gourmet magazine’s library by purchasing it and donating it to New York University. After Hurricane Sandy, Ms. Gold established a pop-up kitchen in Brooklyn delivering 185,000 meals for those-in-need. One of “Four Women Chefs for Peace” on a mission to Israel, she has cooked for President Carter, Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Brigadier General Wilma Vaught, supervised dinner for 5000 for the Women in Military Service for America War Memorial, and helped re-build the Zen Monastery in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.  She is a frequent guest on National Public Radio, and known to many as a mentor in the food world.

      An impassioned end-of-life doula, Ms. Gold is a former Trustee of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, and co-founder of the new “Death & Living Project.” A graduate of Tufts University (psychology), she holds an MFA (in poetry) from the New School for Social Research where she teaches "The Language of Food.” Her podcast," One Woman Kitchen,” features the inspiring stories of the food world's most remarkable women chefs, writers and entrepreneurs. A finalist for the 2020 Sappho Poetry Prize, she is a Board Director of “Brooklyn Poets,” and currently writing a book about food, memory and spiritual nourishment.