Anne Rosenzweig
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Anne Rosenzweig is an American retired chef and restaurateur[1] based in New York City, who was known as “the Greta Garbo of the food world.” [2] Her restaurants included Arcadia (executive chef and co-owner with Ken Aretsky),[3][4] the Lobster Club and Inside.[5][6]
In the late 1970s, Rosenzweig graduated from Columbia University with an anthropology degree. Afterwards, she did several years of field work in Africa add Nepal. When she returned to New York City, she became an unpaid apprentice at several NYC kitchens before becoming the brunch, pastry and head chef at the Greenwich Village restaurant Vanessa. It was there that she caught the attention of food critic Mimi Sheraton.[7]
Career
During the Clinton Administration she was she was a finalist to become the White House chef, and the only woman to be considered for the position.[2] In 1987, she “took over the running” of the 21 Club in New York.[8]
Mayukh Sen described her dishes as “at once stylized and freewheeling, gently upset the conventions framing New American cuisine.”[1]
Along with fellow chefs Monique Barbeau, Rozanne Gold and Susan Spicer, she was one of the four “Women Chefs of Peace.”[9]