Kara Newman is a food, wine, and spirits writer based in New York City. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Gourmet, Saveur, Wine Enthusiast and Yankee Magazine, and many other publications. Her first book, 'Spice and Ice,' about spicy cocktails, was published by Chronicle Books in 2009. Kara's website is http://www.karanewman.com. Kara was the 2007 recipient of the Stags' Leap Winery Fellowship at the Symposium for Professional Wine Writers at Meadowood, as well as the 2006 recipient of the Terlato Family Scholarship for Wine and Food Writers at the Greenbrier Symposium for Professional Writers. She is a member of the American Sommelier Association, the Museum of the American Cocktail, and the International Association of Culinary Professionals, and is a former board member of the Culinary Historians of New York.