Dan Barber

Dan Barber's Book About Food Sold to Ann Godoff at Penguin Press

At Blue Hill at Stone Barns.
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At Blue Hill at Stone Barns.

Dan Barber, the chef and restaurateur who operates the celebrated Greenwich Village restaurant Blue Hill, has found a publisher for that book of food stories he was shopping last month. According to his literary agent David Black-- whom Mr. Barber met when he came to dinner at Blue Hill-- the book was acquired by the Penguin Press about a week after the proposal went out.

The Penguin Press, one of the most prestigious publishers of non-fiction in town, is a logical home for Mr. Barber, a vocal advocate of sustainable agriculture and locally-grown food whose intellectual predelictions are not dissimilar from those of Michael Pollan, who is also published there.  read more »

Bookish Chef Shops Book Ideas

Bookish Chef Shops Book Ideas
Yvette Grant

Dan Barber really likes to read, so he gets excited when people who work in publishing eat dinner at Blue Hill, the super fresh, locally sourced restaurant that he opened seven years ago in Greenwich Village. Mr.  read more »

Casual Style, But Highest Caliber: Blue Hill On Par With City’s Best

Sophisticated modern cuisine in the warm and cozy basement of a townhouse near Washington Square.
James Hamilton
Sophisticated modern cuisine in the warm and cozy basement of a townhouse near Washington Square.

Blue Hill Three Stars 75 Washington Place (Between Sixth Avenue and Washington Square Park)  read more »

Casual Style, But Highest Caliber: Blue Hill On Par With City's Best

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(Between Sixth Avenue and Washington Square Park)