Robin Goldstein is a book author, consumer advocate, wine industry satirist, and creator of Fearless Critic, the anti-bullshit food and wine publisher. His work focuses on sensory perception, consumer behavior, placebo responses, and other signaling effects. His 20 taste-related books have a total of more than 250,000 copies in print, including The Wine Trials, the world’s bestselling book about inexpensive wine, and The Beer Trials. Robin has been a visiting scholar in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and has been a regular contributor to the New York Times’ Freakonomics blog and Fodor’s travel guides from Italy to Hong Kong. Robin has degrees from Harvard University, where he studied philosophy and neuroscience, and Yale Law School, where he studied behavioral law and economics. He also holds a certificate in cooking from the French Culinary Institute in New York, and an advanced wine and spirits certificate from WSET.
Trackbacks/Pingbacks
[...] Robin Goldstein has the kind of pedigree that might make you expect him to be, frankly, a bit of a wine and food snob. He studied neuroscience and philosophy at Harvard, earned a law degree from Yale, picked up a cooking credential from the French Culinary Institute and added a certificate from the Wine and Spirit Education Trust for good measure. [...]
[...] Robin Goldstein has the kind of pedigree that might make you expect him to be, frankly, a bit of a wine and food snob. He studied neuroscience and philosophy at Harvard University, earned a law degree from Yale, picked up a cooking credential from the French Culinary Institute and added a certificate from the Wine and Spirit Education Trust for good measure. [...]
[...] In the next few posts I will be sharing a few of my favorite varietals and hopefully will prove that opting for wine instead of something else isn’t a pricey switch. Until then, why not visit Robin Goldstein’s blog! [...]
[...] Robin Goldstein, IP attorney and wine blogger, during the Law & Ethics of Food Blogging session, completely and utterly eviscerated the Wine Spectator…tore out their rotting guts and strangled them with it. Long story short: their “Awards of Excellence” are total bullshit. This was blogger-as-influencer personified. [...]