David Rosengarten

David Rosengarten is an American chef, author and television personality, who hosted or co-hosted more than 2500 television shows on the Food Network from 1994 to 2001. Rosengarten's first hosting opportunity on the US channel Food Network was Food News & Views. He then created and hosted the program Taste, which premiered in February 1994 and ran for eight years on the Food Network, and co-hosted In Food Today with Donna Hanover.

 He has also appeared frequently on NBC's Today show. Rosengarten was a contributing editor for Gourmet Magazine from 1995 to 1999, and was that magazine's New York restaurant critic. He published articles in several US newspapers including The New York Times, the New York Daily News, and The New York Observer, and he was the weekly wine columnist of Newsday.

Other magazines and websites for whom he has written include Food & Wine, Bon Appetit, Harper's Bazaar, Departures, The Wine Spectator, Wine & Spirits, The Wine Enthusiast, Saveur, the Huffington Post, and Forbes. From 2001 to 2007, Rosengarten wrote and published The Rosengarten Report, which in 2003 won a James Beard Award for "best food and wine newsletter.

" At its height, The Rosengarten Report had 50,000 paid subscribers. Since October 2006, Rosengarten has been organizing and hosting food tours in regions such as the Mediterranean, India and Iceland. In the middle of 2012, Rosengarten created a YouTube channel, RosengartenTV.