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Caroline Fidenza, Anna Dunn, Jess Arndt, DINER JOURNAL

Caroline Fidanza was the founding chef of Diner in 1998, Marlow and sons in 2004, and Marlow and daughters butcher shop in 2008.  All located on a stretch of Broadway in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, these businesses have been quintessential, ultimately defining the culinary style of the borough. She is committed to real food and sustainability, embracing these principles in her support of a network of farmers and producers that supply the needs of the businesses and are ultimately responsible for creating the foundation of delicious food.  She along with the owners of Diner and Marlow have worked over the course of a decade to expand the reach and scope of their purchasing power, creating their own distribution networks when necessary, to bring their product into the New York market.  Now well versed in the complicated system of procurement, Caroline is committed to sharing her sources with other chef’s and restaurateurs in her locality.  She is also the food and recipe writer for the Diner Journal, a quarterly food publication focused on food, wine, agriculture, politics, poetry, art and design.  She now owns Saltie, a bakery and sandwich shop in the neighborhood that sustains her, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 

An avid student of old fashioned mixologies, vast piracy, and assorted buggery, Jess Arndt wrestled her MFA from Bard College and now teaches writing at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She just finished her first novel, Shanghai’d, and has most recently been published in Velvet Mafia: Dangerous Queer Fiction, Encyclopedia Journal: A-E, Bottoms Up! Writing About Sex from Soft Skull Press, and The Diner Journal/Fall.

Anna Dunn is Editor In Chief of the Diner Journal. She has a dog named Bird and contributes to Brooklyn Based, Red Line Blues, Famous Magazine and most recently to FAQNP, a forth coming Queer Nerd Magazine. She also directs a group of rabble rousing poets known as the Drunk N Sailor and works closely with Capricious Gallery.

http://thedinerjournal.com

Gabrielle Hamilton, author of BLOOD, BONES AND BUTTER, is the chef/owner of PRUNE which she opened in New York City’s East Village in October 1999. PRUNE has been recognized in all major press, both nationally and internationally, and is regularly cited in the top 100 lists of all major food magazines. Gabrielle has made numerous television appearances including segments with Martha Stewart, Mark Bittman, and Mike Colameco and most notably was the victor in her Iron Chef America battle against Bobby Flay on The Food Network in 2008.  Gabrielle has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Saveur magazine and Food & Wine and had the 8 week Chef’s Column in The New York Times. Her work has been anthologized in Best Food Writing 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006.  She is currently working on a collection of food essays to be published by Random House in October 2010.