Dana Cowin

Dana Cowin, creative director at Chefs Club International, oversees culinary curation and visiting chef events for this innovative restaurant group with locations in Aspen, Colorado, and New York City. In this role, Cowin advances Chefs Clubs’ mission of showcasing (on the restaurant’s daily menu) the most memorable and relevant dishes from the best chefs around the country and the world. Prior to Chefs Club, Cowin was editor-in-chief of Food & Wine for more than 20 years, where she was responsible for all aspects of the award-winning brand, including the print magazine, website, social media, and books. In 2012, Cowin was inducted into the prestigious James Beard Foundation's Who's Who of Food and Beverage in America, one of the industry's highest honors. She serves on the board of City Harvest, a New York hunger-relief organization; Hot Bread Kitchen, which helps train and support foreign-born and low-income individuals looking to work in food service; and the Allen-Stevenson School, in Manhattan. Cowin is the author of Mastering My Mistakes in the Kitchen: Learning to Cook With 65 Great Chefs and Over 100 Delicious Recipes (Ecco Press, 2014), which has been recognized by many publications as one of the best cookbooks of the year.