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Karen Page is the weekly wine columnist for The Washington Post, and one of America’s foremost experts on food and drink. Her most recent book What to Drink with What You Eat: The Definitive Guide to Pairing Food with Wine, Beer, Spirits, Coffee, Tea – Even Water – Based on Expert Advice from America’s Best Sommeliers made history as the first non-cookbook and the first book on beverages ever to receive the coveted IACP “Cookbook of the Year” Award. It also won the Georges Duboeuf “Wine Book of the Year” Award.

As the co-author of seven books and a winner of the James Beard Book Award for Best Writing on Food, Page has been cited as an “international culinary luminary” by the Relais & Chateaux organization and as half of “the brightest young author team on the culinary scene today” on National Public Radio. She has consulted with Fortune 500 food and beverage companies on flavor trends, menu development, and marketing strategy, and has spoken at the 92nd Street Y, the Culinary Institute of America, the Smithsonian Institute, and the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College. In 1997, she received the Melitta Bentz Award for Women’s Achievement, given in honor of the multibillion-dollar global coffee company’s woman founder.

She holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School, where she was a General Mills/AAUW Foundation Fellow and one of five finalists for The Fitzie Foundation Award honoring the most outstanding woman student. She also earned a BA in economics from Northwestern University, where she conducted research under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and assisted in the founding of The Committee of 200, the organization of preeminent women in business. In 1993, Northwestern’s President appointed her a founding member of The Council of 100, an organization of 100 of the university’s most outstanding alumnae which also counts as members Court TV anchor Rikki Klieman, Hollywood producer Sherry Lansing, and Crate & Barrel co-founder Carole Segal. In 2006, she passed the introductory course of the Court of Master Sommeliers.

Page has served on the Advisory Committee for, and is an invited guest to, Citymeals-on-Wheels’ annual Power Lunch for Women, which brings together 300 of New York City’s most accomplished women to raise more than $1 million for the homebound elderly. She previously co-founded the National Association of Young Professional Women, which won the praise of Betty Friedan and was recognized with the National Organization for Women’s 1988 Susan B. Anthony Award (“honoring leaders who have done their part to transform the world and bring us closer to achieving equality for women”) at New York City Hall.

Karen Page is a frequent radio guest on NPR stations, and has been interviewed by Matt Lauer on the “Today” show. Her books have been featured in global media as diverse as Bon Appetit, Business Week, Columbia Journalism Review, Entertainment Weekly, Food & Wine, Forbes, The Globe and Mail, Gourmet, Harvard Business School Bulletin, In Style, Mensa Bulletin, Newsweek, Playboy, Prevention, Real Simple, Spain Gourmetour, The Times of India, The Week, Time, Town & Country, Travel + Leisure, USA Today and U.S. News & World Report

. She currently resides in New York City with her husband and co-author chef Andrew Dornenburg.

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