Rudolph Chelminski is the author of The Perfectionist: Life and Death in Haute Cuisine  and I’ll Drink to that. His articles have appeared in numerous national magazines, ranging from PeopleTime to The Atlantic Monthly. He holds a degree from Harvard and has studied at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques. Raised in Connecticut, he began living in Europe more than thirty years ago, when LIFE magazine dispatched him to Paris.