Darra Goldstein

Darra Goldstein is an emerita professor of Russian at Williams College and the founding editor of Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture. She has published widely on literature, culture, art, and cuisine. In addition to serving as the editor in chief of the James Beard—nominated Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets, she is the author of eight cookbooks. She currently serves on the Kitchen Cabinet of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and on the advisory board of the Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts.