Dan Barber
Chef and author
Dan Barber is a New York chef at Blue Hill and Blue Hill at Stone Barns, and the author of The Third Plate.
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American Born 1969 in New York City, United States
About Dan Barber
Dan Barber was born in 1969 and studied English at Tufts University, graduating in 1992. He later trained at the French Culinary Institute, now called the International Culinary Center. He is the chef at Blue Hill in Manhattan. He also leads the kitchen at Blue Hill at Stone Barns in Pocantico Hills, New York, a restaurant located within the nonprofit Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture. He is a prominent supporter of the farm-to-table movement. Barber has written about food and agricultural policy for the New York Times and other publications, and he gave a TED talk titled How I Fell in Love with a Fish. He has won several James Beard awards, among them Best Chef: New York City in 2006 and Outstanding Chef in 2009. In 2009 Time magazine also listed him among the most influential people in the world.