Faculty Bio

Joyce Goldstein is a chef, author, and a consultant to the restaurant and food industries. For 12 years she was chef/owner of the ground-breaking Mediterranean restaurant, SQUARE ONE, in San Francisco, which received numerous prestigious industry awards for food, wine and service. Prior to SQUARE ONE, Joyce was chef of the café at Chez Panisse and a visiting executive chef at the Wine Spectator Greystone Restaurant at the CIA in the Napa Valley. Joyce received the James Beard Award for Best Chef in California for 1993. Joyce is a very prolific cookbook author. Her books include The Mediterranean Kitchen, Back to Square One: Old World Food in a New World Kitchen, winner of both the Julia Child and James Beard Awards for Best General Cookbook of 1992, and Kitchen Conversations, an IACP book award nominee in 1997. Her most recent books include Cucina Ebraica: Flavors of the Italian Jewish Kitchen, Sephardic Flavors: Jewish Cooking of the Mediterranean, Enoteca: Simple, Delicious Food from Italian Wine Bars, Saffron Shores, Jewish Cooking of the Southern Mediterranean, Solo Suppers, Savoring Spain and Portugal, Mediterranean Fresh, and the recently released Tapas. (San Francisco, CA)