Rob Chirico

Rob Chirico is an artist and the author of several books, including the Field Guide to Cocktails (Quirk Books/Random House October 2005), which is in its third printing and has sold over 25,000 copies, plus it has been translated into Polish (really). His most recent book is Not My Mother's Kitchen: Rediscovering Italian-American Cooking Through Stories and Recipes, a cookbook/memoir, which will have you laughing while you make great Italian food. His novel, Onward Kitchen Soldiers, which is a humorous take on food media, publishing, and public relations, was published in April 2014 as an e-book with Untreed Reads. Poor Robert's Almanac is a little bit of everything--and more. His novels Vermeer Tango and Art in the Blood are also available as eBooks on Amazon. He has also written two books on martinis and cigars (Martini Madness and Up in Smoke), and has published articles in the food journal Gastronomica. His non-fiction book, Damn! A Cultural History of Swearing in America was published by Pitchstone Press in 2014.