Darra Goldstein
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| Born | April 28, 1951 |
| Occupation | Professor of Russian at Williams College |
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Vassar College Stanford University |
| Notable works |
Gastronomica The Georgian Feast The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets |
| Notable awards | 2012 James Beard Award, Best Publication for Gastronomica 1993 IACP Julia Child Award, Best Cookbook of the Year for The Georgian Feast |
| Spouse | Dean Crawford |
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Darra Goldstein (born April 28, 1951), the Willcox B. and Harriet M. Adsit Professor of Russian at Williams College, is an award-winning cookbook author and world-renowned food scholar. Currently, she is the editor-in-chief of CURED Magazine, from Zero Point Zero Productions, which was launched in October 2016. She is the founding editor of Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture, which won the 2012 James Beard award for Best Publication, and she served as its editor-in-chief from 2001 to 2012. Recently, she has been honored as both a Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Food Studies at the Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto and as a Macgeorge Fellow at the University of Melbourne in Australia.
Goldstein is also the founding series editor for the California Studies in Food and Culture and the food editor for Russian Life magazine. Goldstein has served on a number of culinary diplomacy programs including as Cultural Envoy from the U.S. Department of State to the Republic of Georgia (in 2013) and as a consultant on food and diversity for the Council of Europe (from 2002 to 2005) along with other USAID and European Union culinary projects. In 1984-1985, Goldstein was the spokesperson for Stolichnaya Vodka in the United States; later in her career Goldstein also consulted for Firebird restaurant and the famed Russian Tea Room in New York City.
Goldstein currently resides in Williamstown, Massachusetts, with her husband Dean Crawford, a writer and professor of English at Vassar College. They have one daughter, Leila.
Goldstein grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the middle child of Irving S. and Helen Haft Goldstein. Her father was an organic chemist who specialized in wood and paper science. Goldstein's love of food stems from her mother who, in her words, “loved to cook.” Her mother won numerous cooking contests and was a finalist in the 1968 Pillsbury Bake-Off. Her mother even won a contest sponsored by King Arthur Sardines with a recipe for sardine and cream cheese dip. The prize included a pewter bowl, which Goldstein still has to this day, and a hundred cans of sardines, which Goldstein remembers receiving in care packages while she was a student at Vassar College. There she studied Russian, German and French. She graduated from Vassar in 1973.
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