Chef John Ash is a James Beard award-winning author, teacher, and restaurateur, and is known as the "Father of Wine Country Cuisine." His namesake restaurant, John Ash & Company, opened in 1980 in Santa Rosa, CA., and was internationally acclaimed. He co-hosted a radio show, The Good Food Hour, for 27 years; he hosted two shows on the Food Network; and he is an instructor at the Culinary Institute of America (voted "Cooking School Teacher of the Year" in 2008 by IACP). John is a champion of sustainable food issues, having served on the Board of the Chef's Collaborative, as well the Board of Seafood Watch, an educational initiative of the Monterey Bay Aquarium, which honored him as the 2014's Sustainable Seafood Educator of the Year. He is the author of four books and is a two-time James Beard Award winner for Culinary Birds and John Ash Cooking One-on-One. From the Earth to the Table won IACP's Julia Child Cookbook of the Year. Chef Ash lives in Santa Rosa, California.