Rose Beranbaum
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As well as being called the Diva of Desserts, Rose has been called the “most meticulous cook who ever lived.” Her mother was a dentist and Rose has been known to use delicate dental tools for fine cake work.
Rose Beranbaum is a cookbook author, cooking teacher, and all-around expert on everything and anything to do with baking.
Rose’s first book, The Cake Bible, was the 1988 winner of the IACP/Seagram Book of the Year and the NASFT Showcase Award for the cookbook that has contributed most to educating the consumer about specialty foods. A culinary best-seller, The Cake Bible is currently in its 42nd printing.
Rose’s Christmas Cookies won the James Beard Best Book in the Dessert and Baking Category in 1990 and The Pie and Pastry Bible, published in 1998, was named by Food and Wine magazine as one of the “Best of the Best: The Best Recipes from the Best Cookbooks of the Year” and the Coffee & Cuisine “Best Cookbook” award.
The Bread Bible was the 2003 winner of the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in the Best Bread Book Category. It was listed by Publisher's Weekly and Food & Wine magazine as one of the top ten books of 2003, and by Fine Cooking as one of the top 12 books of the year. Rose's newest book, Rose's Heavenly Cakes, is her most recent book.
Rose also has a product line called Rose Levy Bakeware, and has produced Rose's Heavenly Cake Strip, a silicone halo that produces particularly even layer cakes. These items are distributed by Harold Imports.
Rose is a contributing editor to Food Arts Magazine where her 2000 article, “Rose’s Sugar Bible" received two awards: The Association of Food Journalists Award for the Best Food Feature in a Magazine and The Jacob’s Creek World Food Award for Best Food Article. She is also a contributor to The Washington Post, Fine Cooking, Bride's, Reader's Digest, and Hemispheres. Rose has been inducted into the James Beard Foundation/D'Artagnon Who's Who of Food and Beverage in America.
An internationally known food expert, Rose also has been a featured presenter at the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival and the Oxford Food Symposium.
Rose is a popular guest on television shows such as The Today Show, The Early Show, Martha Stewart, and Charlie Rose, and has appeared on The Food Network and PBS. For PBS, she was on Master Classes of Johnson & Wales and Seasonings with Dede Wilson. Rose has taped 13 episodes for a public television cooking series called Baking Magic with Rose Levy Beranbaum. The series started in 2004 on PBS stations across the country and will continue for three years.
She and her husband Elliott live in New York City and rural New Jersey.
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