Watching David Rosengarten on his popular TV Food Network show Taste is not unlike sipping your way through the bottles of a well-stocked wine cellar. At one moment he's serious and dramatic, like an aged Bordeaux, and then later he becomes bright and animated, like a fruity California chardonnay. Whether he's dressed as a French baker with a baguette or a punk on a skateboard with nose ring, Rosengarten is a chef of extreme contrasts. He says the "real him" lies somewhere in middle.
While pursuing a doctorate in theater, Rosengarten cooked like crazy every weekend-focusing on a different type of food each time-and even mastered every recipe in both volumes of Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Later he wrote his first article for Gourmet (he's now the magazine's New York City restaurant critic) and began teaching at a local cooking school.
After that point, there was no turning back. A few years ago he pitched an idea for a show called Taste to a producer at the cable TV Food Network. He has since claimed a spot among the most popular chefs on television.
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