Jerry Gleason was an Acquisitions Editor at McGraw-Hill Publishing Company where he often had to take authors to lunch or dinner at the finest restaurants in New York. He started his own company in 1987 and often had to conduct business and negotiate multi-million dollar deals over lunch or dinner. Jerry also writes for the Culinary Institute of America and Pearson Prentice-Hall. He is currently working on the fourth edition of Introduction to Culinary Arts, a high school textbook for Culinary students.
