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I'm the author of nine non-fiction books, one collection of novellas, and nine cookbooks. I am the co-author with various chefs of ten other cookbooks. Best known for writing about food, chefs and the work of professional cooking, I have also written for The New York Times, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Gourmet magazine, and other publications. (A list of all my books.)

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Anthony Bourdain, in a review of Soul of a Chef for The New York Times Book Review of Soul of a Chef, wrote, “Ruhlman sets out to perform a task even restaurant insiders would find difficult: to delve so deeply into the hearts and minds of a few select chefs that he may discover the essence of haute cuisine.

"Amazingly enough, he succeeds—by turning his investigation into an adventure story, a hold-your-breath-while-you-turn-the-page thriller that's also an anthropological study of the culture of cooking.”

Alex Witchel, writing more recently in The Times, described me as “a chef whisperer to the stars.”

My most recent non-fiction book was Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food In America. “Welcome to another side of Michael Ruhlman,” wrote author David Kamp, “not the cookbook author or the chronicler of great chefs, but the smart, conversational guy pushing his shopping cart alongside yours in the supermarket.

"Grocery is a fun, engaging mix of memoir and insight into the ways (past and present) that Americans go about procuring their food.”

“Informative and inspiring,” wrote Booklist in a starred review.

I and the book were featured in Forbes, The Atlantic, with Ari Shapiro on NPR, and were profiled on on the front page of The New York Times’s food pages.

My book on charcuterie has sold nearly a quarter million copies in hardcover and is considered the bible of the subject of the craft. My most recent food cookbook, From Scratch: 10 Meals, 175 Recipes, was called “the new must have cookbook” in the Daily Beast.

I live with my wife, the writer Ann Hood, in New York City and Providence, RI.

For more on my work and what people have said about it, please visit my press page.

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Hi, I'm Michael Ruhlman, an award-winning author and cook who writes about chefs, food and cooking, among other things.

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Ratio App for iPhone

After I wrote my book Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking, a colleague and I built a ratio calculator for iPhones that allows you to cook without recipes. For doughs, batters, custards, sauces, stocks and more, simply plug in the amount of one ingredient and the amounts of the other ingredients are instantly calculated. It's also a handy reference for dozens of our most common preparations. ($4.99 in the app store.)

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I’ve collaborated on a dozen books, including cookbooks and a memoir. If you'd like to collaborate on a project, please contact my agent, Gail Hochman, [email protected], at Brandt & Hochman Literary Agents, Inc.

For speaking engagements contact, Kip Ludwig, [email protected].

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