MICHAEL RUHLMAN

Session Host: Michael Ruhlman, blogger, journalist and author.

Michael Ruhlman is a freelance journalist and writer, the author of eight books and co-author of four cookbooks. His most recent book is The Elements of Cooking: Translating the Chef’s Craft For Every Kitchen (Scribner: November 2007), an opinionated glossary of cooking terms modeled on the Strunk & White classic, Elements of Style. He is the author of The Making of a Chef, the The Soul of a Chef , and The Reach of a Chef, co-author of The French Laundry Cookbook and Bouchon with Thomas Keller and Susie Heller, A Return to Cooking, with Eric Ripert, and Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking and Curing with Brian Polcyn. His other non-fiction books include Boys Themselves, about an all-boys school, Wooden Boats, about life at a New England boatyard, Walk On Water about a surgical team specializing in the repair of neonatal and infant hearts, and House: A Memoir, a story about the importance of house and home. He has been a freelance journalist and writer for nearly fifteen years, his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Gourmet, Saveur, and Food Arts, and has received several IACP awards and a James Beard Award. He lives in Cleveland Heights, OH, with his wife and two children.