Juliette Rossant

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Juliette Rossant (born 1959) is an American author, journalist, and poet, best known for her writings about top-grossing celebrity chefs about whom she first wrote for Forbes magazine and for whom she has defined if not coined the term "super chef," also the title of her first book and of her online magazine.

1 Background
2 Super Chef
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Background

Born in New York City, Rossant is the daughter of James Rossant architect and designer of Reston, Virginia, and Colette Rossant, cookbook author and food writer. After graduating from St. Ann's School in Brooklyn, she attended Dartmouth College and then the Johns Hopkins University, where she studied Creative Writing. She started publishing poems in Extensions literary magazine when she was only 14 years old and co-founded The Stonefence Review literary magazine as an alternative to the highly conservative Dartmouth Review. She studied under Richard Eberhart and Kenneth Koch but began a career in Journalism while living in Istanbul (then Paris and Moscow), writing for a slew of internationally renowned newspapers and magazines, many about business, including Business Week, and eventually returned to New York with Forbes, often writing on international business and particularly for the Forbes annual, global Billionaires List and thus writing as well for Forbes Global, which launched in 1999.

[edit] Super Chef

Rossant also started the Celebrity Chefs column in the Forbes annual Celebrity 100 issue, which she wrote for three years running. (She still writes for Forbes -- see "Tastemakers: Chefs.") Simon & Schuster published her book Super Chef based on a specific definition she developed from her work at Forbes. The book profiles six "super chefs": Wolfgang Puck, Charlie Palmer, Todd English , Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger AKA the "Too Hot Tamales, and Tom Colicchio. The book was nominated by Fast Company magazine for best book.

In the online magazine which continues to track the development of super chefs, Rossant championed the White House's selection of the first woman executive chef and then predicted the First Lady's choice of Cristeta Comerford (see WAMU Radio interview). She continues to track trends and challenge branding efforts, such as the new bi-lingual Cocina Betty Crocker, calling it in an interview with The Houston Chronicle "mostly for housekeepers and maids to learn to cook American food -- and American food that's a little dated, at that," a comment circulated and syndicated from a follow-up piece in The Philadelphia Inquirer. Her expertise is cited nationally, from Food (see Newsweek], New York Daily News, and Nation's Restaurant News) to Islamic Charity.

The online magazine lists and updates (as of 2006) super chefs to include (in addition to those above): Ferran Adria, Lidia Bastianich, Paul Bocuse, Daniel Boulud, Robert Del Grande, Alain Ducasse, Bobby Flay, Larry Forgione, Thomas Keller, Emeril Lagasse, Nobu Matsuhisa, Mark Miller, Michael Mina, Bradley Ogden, Gordon Ramsay, Eric Ripert, Joel Robuchon, Douglas Rodriguez, Suvir Saran, Joachim Splichal, Claude Troisgros, Norman Van Aken, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, and Roy Yamaguchi.